A group of councils were poised to start testing the ContactPoint database for real next month, but last week the Department for Children, Schools and Families pushed back its introduction after uncovering a series of flaws. Junior children's minister Kevin Brennan told CYP Now he decided to delay ContactPoint's introduction until January 2009 because tests uncovered bugs in the software created to run the database. He said the delay was also because the task of entering children's details on the system...


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