CYP Now - Analysis: Every child matters - Huge demand for scarce resources

It will cost hundreds of millions of pounds to set up indexes for professionals to share information about children, but a committee of MPs has suggested that the Government's money could be better spent on other reforms. Fay Schopen reports.

"Make haste slowly". Spoken from the lips of David Hawker, chair of the Association of Directors of Education and Children's Services, this may seem like a contradictory approach to reform.

But Hawker, responding to last week's education and skills select committee report into the Every Child Matters green paper, sums up a major contradiction identified by the committee - the need for caution coupled with a fierce drive for change.

The report commends the Government for embarking on "an ambitious and wide-ranging programme" of reform. It also credits the workers responsible for delivering change, and flags up the "almost universal" support for the paper's aims.

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