The move signals that a Tory government would scale back dramatically the joint working arrangements introduced under Labour's Every Child Matters reforms.
In an interview with CYP Now, shadow children's secretary Michael Gove said children's trusts are a bureaucratic burden on professionals that thwarts them in being able to do their job. Gove said: "I can't see any reason to have a statutory insistence on children's trusts continued."
Children's trusts were brought in by the Children Act 2004 in the wake of the murder of eight-year-old Victoria Climbié in Haringey, with the aim of bringing together several agencies to try and ensure children at risk no longer fell through the cracks between services.
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