Ian Johnston, director of the British Association of Social Workers, said that to be really effective, the director's post "needs to be able to pull health into the equation.
"The preoccupation with the relationship between education and social work has almost started to squeeze out health, which is probably more important for some children," he added.
Fiona Campbell, co-ordinator of the Democratic Health Network at the Local Government Information Unit, said the omission could be because the Government had seen health as having a "narrower remit" than the children's director, and as being "more specifically about ill health or particular child protection issues".
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