Professor Al Aynsley-Green, national clinical director for children at the Department of Health, told Children Now that the children's framework would involve "not just health. It also interfaces with social care and there will be huge opportunities in interfacing with education."
He said the framework would look "at the life of the child" and extended schools would "give us the chance for health to be seen to be engaged".
Aynsley-Green admitted that there was a risk that education and social services would view the children's framework as a health policy, but he added: "There are risks in every direction. Education people tell me they cannot engage with health. Health people tell me they have difficulty engaging with education."
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