Like a bolt out of the blue, shadow children's secretary Michael Gove's comments about children's trusts have placed a serious question mark over the future of these co-operative partnerships.
It is clear that the trusts - characterised by the Conservatives as a bureaucratic burden that thwarts children's workers in their jobs - do not feature highly in the party's plans should it be elected to office next month. Moves to repeal legislation in order to remove the statutory obligation for local areas to set up trusts could herald their demise in some parts of the country.
But should they be scrapped, and, if so, what should replace them?
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