On the back of recommendations made in Sir Alan Wood's 2016 review of LSCBs the government intends to introduce a new statutory framework that will effectively remove the requirement for councils to have LSCBs.
Instead, there will be a requirement on three partners - local authorities, the police and the health service - to make arrangements for working together on child protection in a local area.
A Department for Education survey of senior local authority leaders found that 34 per cent of councils had not considered the implications, or started formulating plans, but "planned to in the future".
Among the 66 per cent that had considered the impact, there was found to be "some concern" over the requirement to move from existing partnerships to a new arrangement.
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