Speaking at an event in Westminster last week, Paul Ennals, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, said "there is still much to be done" to improve health services for children and in particular the way local authorities and primary care trusts (PCTs) work together.
"Our local authority and PCT members tell us that despite Every Child Matters, and despite some excellent local examples, the greatest systematic barrier to integration is the divide between PCTs and local authorities," he said. "Still the separate planning frameworks, still not much progress on joining up commissioning, still two workforce development strands, still different languages and cultures."
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