Dr Sheila Shribman, national clinical director for children, young people and maternity services at the Department of Health, has asked the AYPH to sit on the stakeholder group that will create the strategy promised in The Children's Plan.
Speaking at the AYPH's launch event last week, Shribman said she wanted the charity to tell the government what the strategy should include. She told delegates: "We are building up the current policy and taking forward the concepts outlined in The Children's Plan and the national service framework."
She said the department was currently considering what the strategy's key issues should be and its relative focus on prevention and early intervention, early years and parenting.
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