Health written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Health and Social Care Bill to require joint working between health and education services in respect of children.
The Health and Social Care Bill establishes health and well-being boards, to join up commissioning across the national health service, public health, adult social care and other services, such as education, that the local health and well-being board agrees will contribute to health and well-being.
There is broad support for our proposals for health and well-being boards, which will include Directors of Children's Services as core members, as well as Clinical Commissioning Groups. The boards will have an interest in encouraging the involvement of schools and colleges. Schools will want a voice in the provision of health services for children and young people. These arrangements will be determined locally, in a way that is proportionate and appropriate, both to the capacity of local schools and wider local arrangements to promote children's well-being under the Children's Act 2004.
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