Contact Point and N.R.U.C

Dear Eric

Thank you for your recent email. A reply will be sent to you as soon as
possible. For information, the departmental standard for correspondence
received is that responses should be sent within 20 working days as you
are requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number
2009/0040245.

Thank you.

Central Allocation Team

Public Communications Team

Tel: 0870 0002288
www.dcsf.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Blair,
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 5 May
2009. I am sorry for the delay in replying. You requested:

1 Any information held that confirms that a link has been created
between N.R.U.C and Contact Point and what form this link is or
will be taking.

1.1 Copies of any correspondence, memos, minutes of meeting,
emails-and-attachments, between the IT provider www.esprit-is.com
and the providers of N.R.U.C www.nruc.gov.uk, specific to anything
linking N.R.U.C and Contact Point.

1.2 An outline of the costs and budgets assigned to carry out this
work and a copy of any related contracts.

I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
A copy of the information that we hold is attached to this email. This
consists of:

. Submission from NRUC to DCSF seeking funding to enable NRUC to
supply information to ContactPoint

. A paper to the senior management team in the ContactPoint
project seeking authorisation to release the funds for the grant

. Detailed grant letter

. Project initiation document

. A letter of variation to the grant

. Records of meetings in December 2007 and January 2008

I have withheld the names and contact details of the officials named in
these documents because I consider them not to be integral to your request
and therefore out of scope. Throughout these documents I have replaced
names and contact details with "DCSF OFFICIAL", "NRUC OFFICIAL" etc. to
retain the context and structure of the documents. The detailed grant
letter is only available as a pdf document which I am unable to edit, so
names in that document have been struck out.

I can confirm that the link between NRUC and ContactPoint has not yet been
created, but you will see from the attached documents that this work is
underway and funding has been granted for this work. Details of the
funding assigned to carry out this work can be found in the detailed grant
letter. Any other contracts for this work are between Esprit and
Westminster City Council and are not held by us.

I would also like to clarify that while NRUC will supply information to
ContactPoint, the flow of information is one way only. ContactPoint will
not supply information to NRUC, nor will it pass information supplied by
NRUC to any other system. By law ContactPoint can only hold limited and
basic information such as name, date of birth, gender, contact details for
all children in England up to their 18^th birthday, their parents and
carers and services working with a child. ContactPoint does not contain
any sensitive case information (such as case notes, assessments, or exam
results).

The information supplied to you is protected by the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988. Any documents produced by government officials will be
covered by Crown Copyright. You are free to use the information for your
own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for
the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse, for example commercial
publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder and is
regulated by the Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. You
can find details on the arrangements for re-using Crown Copyright at:

Office of Public Sector Information
Information Policy Team
Kew
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 4DU

Email: [1][email address]

Any information which is not subject to Crown Copyright continues to be
protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the
information originated. You must ensure that you gain their permission
before reproducing such information.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote our reference number (2009/0040245) in any future
communications.

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision,
you should write to Paul Roberts, Improving Information Sharing and
Management Programme (IISaM), policy lead, within two calendar months of
the date of this letter.

Paul Roberts,

IISaM Programme

Ground Floor, Sanctuary Buildings,

Great Smith Street

London

SW1P 3BT

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Generally, the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you
have exhausted our complaints/review procedure.

Yours sincerely

Simon Morrison

Improving Information Sharing and Management Programme
[2]www.dcsf.gov.uk

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2009/0040245.

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