The government looks likely to miss its deadline for implementing a national IT system for the Common Assessment Framework. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) had planned a national adoption of eCAF - the IT system that will allow children's services professionals to create, store and share assessment frameworks - for autumn 2009. A spokeswoman for the DCSF said it expects to sign a contract with a supplier for the national eCAF system "within the next few weeks", after which the development and testing of the national...