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Councils must work on commissioning, says report

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Local authorities must improve relationships with education and health professionals to enable effective commissioning of services, researchers have found.

Published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, a report based on six different councils identified successes in commissioning services in youth work and child and adolescent mental health services.

But it said there was still "a mountain to climb" in education. It also described how some councils had "a historically arm's-length relationship" with primary care trusts and recommended children's trusts settle any differences.

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