Never let it be said that consultations are a waste of time. As revealed by Children Now last week, sustained lobbying by councils worried about the prescriptive nature of last year's green paper has prompted a sea change in the education department's thinking.
Gone are the powerful multi-agency children's trusts, with their own offices and staff. Gone is the obligation to merge education and children's social services into a single department under a powerful director of children's services.
These ideas still have a central place in children's minister Margaret Hodge's philosophy, but a well-organised campaign has persuaded her of the merits of local flexibility.
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