Two officials from every local authority in England are to start basic training to use the £224m system, while staff in 17 authorities will embark on more advanced preparation.
Practitioners in early adopter authorities will start using the system in the spring and the remaining councils will use the database from the summer.
Children's charities Barnardo's and Kids are also piloting the information-sharing database and will start using it at the same time as the early adopter authorities.
The controversial database has been dogged by criticism since its inception, but the government today promised that ContactPoint records will not hold case details and will be impossible to download.
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