JOINT WORKING
Conservatives
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Commentary
Every Child Matters remains the engine that drives Labour's plans to advance joint working, with a move towards more children's services co-located and wider reaching early intervention programmes. The party also wants to stimulate the involvement of social enterprises in service delivery and introduce social impact bonds to encourage private investors to support the third sector.
The Conservatives want to reverse key aspects of integrated working they regard as bureaucratic, by scrapping the obligation on local authorities to set up children's trusts and publish children and young people's plans. They also want more employee-led co-operatives and charities running services.
The Liberal Democrats could actually advance Every Child Matters by extending the duty to co-operate in children's trusts to housing professionals. They would also introduce secondments for children's services professionals, encourage more integrated working between social workers and schools and scale back inspections.
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