Benefits of ContactPoint
What will the benefits be?
Other local authorities have piloted local directories (known as ‘indexes’). They have demonstrated that this type of tool produces some key benefits:
- less time trying to find other practitioners
- quicker assessment of whether a child is receiving universal services (education, primary health care);
- enables more effective multi-agency working which leads to better service experience for children and young people.
An essential requirement identified in the early stages of development was that ContactPoint must be a national system to ensure it works for children who receive services across, or move between, local authority boundaries.
This page was last updated on 23 February 2007
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