Last October, CYP Now revealed that the government had established a ‘Task and Finish Group’, co-chaired by the Department for Education and NHS England and made up of civil servants and experts from the care and family justice sectors, with the aim of improving the outcomes for young people subject to DoL orders, or at risk of being deprived of their liberty, because of their complex needs.
At the time, neither the DfE nor NHSE would comment about the group, but in a blog published just before Christmas, senior leaders at the two bodies confirmed it has been established to “improve joint working and planning, informed by children and young people’s current experiences and by what they, and their parents and carers, say they want and would find helpful”.
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