Children's trusts could "morph" into health and wellbeing boards, calming fears that efforts to join up services for children and young people are being undermined, health experts claim.
The news comes as councils begin developing plans for the statutory boards, which must be up and running by April 2012. The remit of the boards was first announced in the public health white paper Healthy Lives, Healthy People, which Health Secretary Andrew Lansley published in November last year.
Leading sector figures warned last year that the government's decision to remove the duty on councils to set up children's trust boards will damage relationships built up across agencies. But proposals to introduce health and wellbeing boards have been hailed as a means of helping to integrate health and children's services.
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