Labour's plans for the family

Sometimes it's peaceful:

In the brave new world of [Every Child Matters] parents are almost superfluous and completely interchangeable. They do feature on the pictoral explanation of a child's life, but they appear to have equal status to the 'third sector' and are placed further away from the child than:

• Maternity and Primary Health;
• Children's Centres;
• Extended Schools;
• Integrated Youth Services;
• Lead Professionals;
• Specialist Services;
• Multi-agency Locality Teams;
• The Team Around the Child;
• The Common Assessment Framework [opens pdf]; and
• ContactPoint.

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