If any one idea defines the Every Child Matters agenda it is the idea oferasing the barriers between children's services.
This idea explains almost all of the children's services reforms thathave been under way in England since 2001. And, once these reforms arecompleted, the Government's hope is that children will no longer loseout because services failed to work together.
But, while the proposal to unite local authority children's services waslargely welcomed by the sector, some raised concerns about what impactthis change would have on work with families as a whole.
The reason for this concern was down to the impact of the changes onsocial services. In order to unite children's services, the childelements of social services needed to become part of the same departmentas education, leaving adult social services to continue as a separateentity.
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