Similarly, at governmental level, it’s not enough to have a single Minister in charge of policy relating to babies, children, and young people. Looking after this group spans too wide a breadth of policy. Every minister must be a minister for children. This point was powerfully brought home when we discussed putting children at the heart of Integrated Care Systems, the new structures being established by the forthcoming Health and Care bill.
It was heartening when the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children, which I co-chair, met with children, parents, parliamentarians and the children’s sector to discuss integration, that the minister for health, Edward Argar, got it.
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