The move will come as a blow to campaigners, who warn the measure iscrucial if the basic needs of disabled children and their families, asset out under the children's national service framework, are to bemet.
The news came at the launch of a guide for services catering forchildren with complex disabilities, which is designed to help implementthe framework.
Delegates at a conference held by the Council for Disabled Children onprogress in implementing the framework, launched last September, heardhow the complex disability exemplar would help services co-ordinate andbe commissioned around the child.
However, Byrne rejected calls for disabled children's services to beincorporated into the Planning and Priorities Framework, which sets outkey national targets primary care trusts have to build into their localdelivery plans.
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