Councils will also have to provide parents with a greater range of services to help them bring up their children, health secretary John Reid and education secretary Charles Clarke will announce.
Billed as the first cross-cutting approach to setting standards for children's health services, the NSF will have huge implications not just for health and social care but also for education and other service providers.
The framework sets out a programme of improvement over the next 10 years, meaning many of the changes laid out will not be implemented immediately.
But when they are, they will be rigorously inspected against, meaning authorities will have to take notice of them.
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