The Department for Education and Skills will give councils wide flexibility over the way children's trusts operate and is keen to pilot the handing down of commissioning responsibilities to schools.
But social workers are worried about the proposal, which they feel gives too much power to headteachers.
Children's minister Margaret Hodge told Children Now: "One way of demonstrating the centrality of schools to the broader inclusion of children agenda is perhaps to have the commissioning of services in a particular area under the aegis of schools or a cluster of schools."
But Ian Johnston, director of the British Association of Social Workers, said: "That sounds like a pretty outrageous suggestion.
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