The partnerships bring together the North East and North West'sstrategic health authorities with government offices for those regions.They will attempt to protect the children's agenda from the effects ofcost cutting within the National Health Service and keep children highon the health agenda.
NHS North East has joined forces with the region's 12 local authoritydirectors of children's services, a representative of its primary caretrusts, and the Government Office for the North East.
Claire Appleby, children's adviser for the Government Office for theNorth East, said: "The NHS is struggling with financial issues and therehave been some in the system wanting to go faster than the NHS can gobecause of (these issues). So we're trying to tie together theDepartment of Health, Department for Education and Skills, and NHS ingeneral - to have conversations in a positive way rather than stokingthe friction in the system.
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