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Health policy
Commissioning from specialist children’s trusts
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Correspondence to:
Dr T Hutchison, Child Health Department, Bath NHS House, Newbridge Hill, Bath BA1 3RF, UK;
tom.hutchison@banes-pct.nhs.uk
The Children’s Trust initiative is a freedom not a solution
Keywords: childrens trusts; commissioning
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Alan Milburn, the Government Health Secretary, threw the phrase "children’s trusts" into the arena of public debate when he addressed a national social services conference in Cardiff on 16 October 2002. He said:
"I intend to create specialist children’s trusts to jointly plan, commission, finance, and, where it makes sense, deliver children’s services. Children’s trusts which commission services will be based in local councils with the power for the first time to commission health as well as social care.
And for those children’s trusts that want to specialise in providing services we will want to explore a range of models in different parts of the country. These could potentially include local not for profit public interest companies that could enlist the involvement of the community, voluntary, and private sectors alongside the public sector.
We want to pilot this new approach, so in December this year my department and. . . [Full text of this article]
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