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LES LAWRENCE, chair, children and young people's board, Local Government Association
Local authorities provide the democratic, strategic and operational accountability for all aspects of children's services. The suggestion that a social enterprise organisation can undertake this role undermines the very nature of local democracy, that you can hold to account and remove those with the overall responsibility.
The complexity and need for inter-agency provision indicates that no one organisation can of itself provide every aspect of the services required. However, social enterprises have a significant role to play in being commissioned to provide specific elements of children's services together with parts of the third sector.
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