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 system would last for a year.
But speaking at the Capita Children's Services annual conference last week, Roger Green, head of the service responsible for information sharing at Cambridgeshire Council, said the government's target for national eCAF is unrealistic.
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