Steve Sinnott of the National Union of Teachers pleaded with the Government to extend the deadlines - and quoted Children Now's exclusive survey to drive home his point that many councils were not ready for such a massive change.
He said the Government needed to take note of the survey's finding that one third of councils were not working towards the 2006 deadline for establishing children's trusts (Children Now, 1-7 September). He also warned of the dangers of a recruitment crisis if, as the survey suggested, few people wanted to apply for the director of children's services position.
"Teachers, I believe, are committed to the principles of Every Child Matters and the principle that we have to ensure children's needs are met in a co-ordinated way," he told an NUT fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth.
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