The system holds the details of more than 11 million children throughout England and Wales in a bid to make it easier for practitioners to find out who else is working with a child.
It has emerged that between 2 November and 18 December, ContactPoint was being operated without its children missing education (CME) reporting function.
The CME function is designed to flag up which children are not attending school in a bid to identify any that may be vulnerable.
The situation came to light following a Parliamentary question tabled by shadow children’s minister Tim Loughton.
Clearly the whole thing is far from up and running properly, Loughton said. "The fact that this function was out for six weeks is more than slightly worrying.
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