The public health white paper published last week sets out proposals to devolve around £4bn of public health funding to councils.
New statutory local health and wellbeing boards will bring together partners from health and local authorities to support joint commissioning. Directors of children's services will sit on these boards and will be charged with helping to integrate education with local health and wellbeing services.
Jo Webber, policy director at the NHS Confederation, welcomed the proposals, but said free schools and academies would need to engage in local public health planning if the new boards are to be held directly accountable for the health of all children and young people in their area.
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