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Northern Ireland: Strategy to avoid structural change

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Northern Ireland's new draft 10-year children and young people's strategy will be delivered without any changes in the structure of children's services.

The broad-ranging document, Making it r wrld 2, was launched last week and proposes reforms to services including education, child protection, health, and family and community support.

But unlike reforms in England, no new structures are proposed.

Instead the paper says that structures such as local strategic partnerships and area child protection committees, which already exist, would deliver change.

Relevant government departments would lead the work, linking up with these existing structures, departments and the voluntary and community sector, the paper adds.

Proposals include a comprehensive study of deprived urban areas, a parenting and family support strategy and an action plan to help include children from Traveller communities in mainstream schools.

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