The restructuring by strategic health authorities, PCTs and local authorities is a response to the Children Bill, and also in anticipation of the children's national service framework, due out next month. The jobs are geared towards promoting collaborative working across children's health, education and social care.
Lesley Kay, assistant director of development and modernisation at Cheshire and Merseyside SHA, said a new programme director position had been created for children's services, to act as a "conduit" between PCTs, education services and social care services.
She said: "It was clear that collectively the impact of the children's national service framework was going to be much bigger than just acute care, as it will include areas such as mental health, maternity and children's medicines. So we were conscious of the impact on the NHS agenda. And while we were discussing that, more policy came out with the Every Child Matters and Next Steps papers."
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