A Children Now investigation can reveal that at least six of the local authority areas are yet to fully implement an information-sharing database, and in one area the project has practically ground to a halt.
It coincides with concerns raised in Parliament that a number of the trailblazers are behind schedule.
NSPCC chief executive Mary Marsh told the education and skills committee last week: "We have done an awful lot of investment in these trailblazing authorities. Some of them are not yet working as they should be."
The Government provided 1m to each of the 10 trailblazers, which were selected between August 2002 and January 2003, to set up the early warning systems, at first known as Identification, Referral and Tracking projects.
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