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When local authorities took on duties to deliver public health services in 2013, Warwickshire County Council moved its public health department into its communities directorate. This enabled the team to have more influence on decisions made by departments such as education. However, in April 2018 the authority merged public health into the Strategic Commissioning Unit, putting a single director in charge of public health and strategic commissioning in the unit, with responsibility for commissioning public health, children's social care and adult social care. As a result, the authority's commissioning lead for children's public health Kate Sahota says she is now involved in every children's services commissioning decision.
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