Last week's health and social care white paper set out proposals tointroduce performance indicators on health outcomes. These include childobesity, child mortality and teenage pregnancy.
The information will be used to help track local authorities' progresson improving children's outcomes in early years and the use ofchildren's centres.
Terry Redmayne, director of children, families and learning inMiddlesbrough, said that the measures would help set a benchmark for howauthorities' performance changed. But he said that as responsibility forchild obesity moved from health services to children's trusts a jointapproach to monitoring was needed.
- See Analysis, p12.
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