But real-life, on-the-ground joined-up services to children and young people are set to receive a boost with the creation of children's trusts, the first three-year pilots of which are due to go live in July. Children's trust's will bring together services for young people in one organisational structure. The idea is to enable the joint planning, commissioning, financing and delivery of services to cut bureaucracy, make services more focused and, crucially, more accessible to users along the way.
The impetus behind the creation of the trusts comes from an analysis of the failures identified in the Victoria Climbie case, but their range will be much wider than child protection.
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