The Future Forum report published earlier this month, produced by a group of 45 representatives, including Terence Stephenson, from a range of organisations, proposed a number of changes to the Health and Social Care Bill.
The government accepted recommendations to promote close working between health and wellbeing boards and clinical commissioning groups – previously known as GP consortia – and ensure professionals safeguard children and promote their welfare.
But Christine Lenehan, director of the Council for Disabled Children, told CYP Now that the needs of children have been all but ignored by government.
"The government has recognised that children's health issues exist, but only in the minutest way," she said. "We have some children with complex needs but we're still struggling to get answers to the simplest problems. If you're a child that needs continence protection for example, a fairly basic need, we still don't know who commissions it and how people find out about it."
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