James Kempton, vice-chair of the children and young people's board at the Local Government Association, told Parliament's Education and Skills Select Committee: "The position of schools challenges us. We seem to be arguing for services to come together, but schools have no duty to co-operate."
Kempton added that GPs are in a similar position. Gill Morgan, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents the organisations that make up the NHS, agreed.
"If you look at the number of GP practices, you have to have something that gets into every one of them," she said.
Terry Grange, chief constable of the Dyfed-Powys Police Authority, said: "The police force has been peripheral to all these discussions. We are absolutely essential to all the work that is being done in this area."
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