The green paper Every Child Matters talked a lot about getting education, social care and health to work together. It didn't say much about housing, which Margaret Hodge acknowledges was a big omission.
Last week, the children's minister revealed that she was working hard to remedy that gap by looking at ways to integrate housing more closely with the work of future children's trusts.
It's a clear admission by the Government of the central importance of housing to the quality of children's lives.
Jane Cook, chair of the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association's housing group, says that housing has a fundamental effect on both health and education.
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