It started to reform services for children and young people in 2001, three years before the Every Child Matters green paper was published.
Tony Lewis is the councillor responsible for the children and young people portfolio at Suffolk, and also sits on the Local Government Association (LGA)'s children and young people's board. He says he has been described as "almost evangelical" about the work.
The Suffolk initiative, Children's Futures, was set up in response to concerns raised by the citizens' panel, a group of 1,000 people in Suffolk who are surveyed by the council.
"We asked them a number of questions about what we were doing, and one of the things that came out of it was about dealing with children holistically, instead of having a service focus," says Lewis.
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