After months of consultation, the Government has finally published the long-awaited children bill. This is the first step in realising the plans set out in the green paper, Every Child Matters, and despite only addressing some of those proposals, it will lay the foundations for the remaining reforms.
Youth minister Margaret Hodge describes the bill as providing a "legislative spine" for the long-term changes put forward in the green paper and the nature of the bill certainly fits that description.
Rather than laying down new rules and requirements, the children bill is, to use the Parliamentary jargon, an "enabling" piece of legislation packed with proposals to change the structure of children and young people's services in England and Wales.
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