The bill, which will be introduced into Parliament today, will not make the establishment of children's trusts a statutory requirement.
Their role will be more of a joint commissioning mechanism rather than a standalone body of a council.
Councils will be left to decide whether the trust should have its own office and staff or whether it should simply exist as a regular commissioning meeting.
And following consultation, there will be greater flexibility over who is responsible for children's services in an authority, as revealed by Children Now (News, 14-20 January).
The green paper Every Child Matters suggested that a director of children's services would have to be appointed to take over the statutory responsibilities of the chief education officer and the director of social services.
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