The plan is for statutory and voluntary agencies, health, education and social services to join up and share common approaches, share information, set up more multidisciplinary teams, carry out joint training, combine resources, pool budgets, agree strategies and be subject to clear accountability.
The Department of Health has finally finished its deliberations and come up with 35 pilot authorities - or pathfinders as they have been dubbed - to benefit from three years of funding to help them lay down some roots.
Children's trusts will have a central role in the long-awaited green paper, so these pilot schemes are significant for the future shape of services for young people. Nearly a third of local authorities put bids in to become a pilot, and the increase in priority of trusts was underlined when the Government chose 35 out of 45, rather than the 20 originally planned.
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