"Responding to the inquiry headed by Lord Laming into Victoria (Climbie's) death, we are proposing here a range of measures to reform and improve children's care - crucially for the first time ever requiring local authorities to bring together in one place, under one person, services for children." These are the words of the Prime Minister in his foreword to Every Child Matters, the Government's green paper published in September 2003.
The paper promises "radical reform" in order to break down organisational boundaries and to make just one person in each English local authority accountable for education and children's social services.
It also proposes that, in the long term, all key services for children should be integrated under children's trusts. These trusts, which local authorities are expected to have in place by 2006, will combine health, children's social services and schools, but may also include youth offending teams and Connexions.
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