Until now, the Government has concentrated on other parts of the architecture - setting up joint planning and commissioning systems, reshaping organisational structures. It has started influencing practice on the ground through encouraging joint working and assessment, as well as introducing joint inspection.
But these changes will be for nothing if the services themselves do not work to joint standards, which ignore the old boundaries of health, social care and education and look instead at the needs of children and young people. That is what the NSF sets out to do.
Whether it succeeds will depend on a number of factors. Firstly, do professionals in the field feel they "own" the standards? They should do: thousands were consulted in their development, including more than 30 events involving children and young people. But time has passed since the consultations; people may have forgotten that they contributed these ideas themselves.
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