Are outcomes for children improving? We have to wait awhile and see. The children's trust partnership is the vehicle through which the Every Child Matters (ECM) changes are to be delivered. However, the duty to co-operate - the legislative basis for children's trust partnerships - only came into full effect in 2008, as did the local authority duty to appoint a director of children's services (DCS) and designate a councillor to act as lead member with responsibility for children's services.
So isn't it too soon to ask the question? Just as it's premature for the Audit Commission to argue in its recent report Are we there yet? that children's trusts are failing to improve outcomes for children.
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