Earlier this month, in an interview with CYP Now, shadow children's secretary Michael Gove said his party would repeal legislation to remove the obligation for local authorities to set up children's trusts and publish children and young people's plans if they win the election.
But in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Laming countered claims that children's trusts "added to bureaucracy" saying they were necessary to ensure different agencies work together to share information.
Speaking to the Guardian, he said: "We know from all the dreadful things that happened before what the result is if services do not collaborate. We are not working to increase bureaucracy. But agencies after an event always say, 'If only we knew', and that is why they should sit and share information.
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