The organisation, which represents councils across England, fears that the review, which could result in the mandatory requirement for local authorities to conduct health visitor family checks being scrapped, could trigger cuts to services.
It believes that if the mandatory requirement for five checks to be conducted on children up to the age of two-and-a-half is removed, hard-pressed councils could decide to divert funding to other areas that retain their mandatory status.
The chair of the LGA's children and young people board Richard Watts, and the chair of the community wellbeing board, Izzi Seccombe, have written to public health minister Nicola Blackwood requesting that "the government does not make a decision about the mandation of health visiting services in isolation".
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