Children's secretary Ed Balls will lead the nationwide consultation witheducation and children's services experts as well as children andfamilies themselves.
The aim is to develop a new Children's Plan that brings together allaspects of policy affecting children and young people.
There will be three working groups - one for birth to seven, one foreight- to 13-year-olds and another for 14- to 19-year-olds.
Speaking last week at an Education and Skills Select Committee meeting,David Bell, permanent secretary at the Department for Children, Schoolsand Families, said looking at children's services in these age groupswould help safeguard children.
The working group for eight- to 13-year-olds would, for instance, helpprotect those children who might "fall through the gap" between primaryand secondary school, he said.
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