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Children's services workers must develop a new professionalism that leaves behind working in isolation and puts the needs of the child first, delegates were told.

There needs to be more flexibility in the wider children's workforce beyond teachers, social workers and health workers, said Gordon Jeyes, Cambridgeshire Council's deputy chief executive of children, young people and families.

On the challenges of the children's agenda, Jeyes said schools had to become more inclusive.

He said responding to the new agenda was not about legislative requirements or who gets the director of children's services job but about changing society's attitudes to children.