Hot on the heels of the Children Act 2004, which finally became law last month, comes the first significant guidance document on how the transformation of services for children and young people should be achieved (YPN, 1-7 December, p3).
Every Child Matters: Change for Children defines the "national framework" for the local programmes that will be responsible for making the changes.
Youth minister Margaret Hodge says the document is "for chief executives and the directors of the emerging children's trusts. It sets out the time frame of when services' new duties start biting."
Extra funding
To realise the framework, the Government has found some extra money: 22.5m for local authorities in 2006-07 and 63m in 2007-08. It has not said how this money will be allocated, but it will be "consistent with the Government's aim to reduce ring-fencing", and it says the changes will not lead to council tax rises.
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