We Don't Want to Have to Say We Told You So...

...but the government is clearly continuing to ignore repeated warnings (eg: here, here and here) about the problems with ContactPoint.

When it comes to getting government departments to listen, experience seems to suggest that only threats of damage to themselves actually carries any leverage - witness their desire not to appropriate responsibility for education which informed their approach to the writing of the recent Guidelines on Home Education.

The threat of endangering the population at large just doesn't cut it with that lot.