It is important to make sure practitioners meet the needs of families,as well as those of groups like young carers and disabled parents, whoneed help from both services, she told a Local Government Associationconference last week.
Hughes said joint work between adult and children's services has alwaysbeen a challenge, and it would be wrong to "suggest there was once agolden era".
- See Feature, p20.
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