Eight out of the 35 children's trusts will initially focus on providing services for disabled children to prevent them from having to undergo numerous assessments, writes Amy Taylor.
The new structures bring health, social care and education services together into a single body in order to provide more joined up services for vulnerable children.
A significant number involve all or a range of services while others have chosen to be more specialist at first. Their focuses include disabled children, mental health, planning and commissioning and looked after children with challenging behaviour.
Four trusts will be centredaround schools, while Sheffield plans to provide access to services through networks of extended schools, and East Riding of Yorkshire will provide services through schools as well as office bases.
Meanwhile, Hampshire is the only trust solely focusing on services for children and young people with mental health problems in the first instance, and Greenwich will initially look at preventive work.
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