The Department for Education (DfE) shut down the directory, set up under the Labour government, at the end of March. But it released the software behind the directory to allow organisations to build and manage their own rendering of the service.
The companies, which were involved in the development of the project from the outset under the last government, have made the new version available at www.openfamilyservices.org.uk, which is to function as a not-for-profit enterprise.
It contains information on all childcare, schools and youth groups in an area via a postcode search function. Prior to its closure, the previous government-backed directory was receiving 40,000 searches a day.
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