Kevin Williams, chief executive of disabled children's charity Kids, called for the government to retain data on disabled children or "go back to a stage where work with disabled children is less co-ordinated".
"When we talk to families of disabled children it is still the case that professionals working with their children do not know enough about them or have not co-ordinated with other professionals who support the family," he said.
Launched in January last year, ContactPoint contained the details of 11 million children in the country and information on which services they had contact with. Along with Barnardo's, Kids was one of the national bodies trialling the programme before its launch. Williams added that he hoped there would still be some form of service for disabled children to ensure that the training Kids staff underwent to use Contactpoint was still applicable.
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