Speaking exclusively to CYP Now in his first interview as president, Kim Bromley-Derry warned that Lord Laming's recommendations on integrated working would be tough to deliver without a renewed focus on joining up services.
"Integration is the right way to travel but this brings a lot of challenges. Not necessarily because services are not joined up at a local level, but because it's not joined up at a national level. We have the right policy framework but delivering it in practice is inhibited - not just by local organisations and systems, but by national organisations and systems," he said.
The Laming report stops short of offering guidance on how to tackle national barriers to joint working.
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