In its response to a government consultation on public health, the British Association of Social Workers called for greater investment to ensure a social worker is placed in every primary care health centre.
Mark Jones, director of the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association, said: "We only work together when there is a crisis - there is neither inter-agency work on a routine basis or the capacity to deal with issues in a preventative sense."
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