Four in ten people working in children's services said they were not confident about the reliability of the data they received on pre-school children.
More than nine in ten of the same respondents said they were confident in the information they held on school-age children between five and 14.
The survey was carried out at a conference organised by Capita.David Martin, a product manager at Capita, said, 'There's a longstanding link between local authorities and schools to provide data because it is a statutory requirement. In settings for under-fives, there are many more individual systems without integrated links to local authorities. There hasn't been the level of integration of nursery systems as there has been with schools systems.'
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