The plans to put children's centres on a firmer legal footing are included in the new Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill. The Bill states that the staffing, organisation and operation of children's centres may come in for regulation, such as requiring local authorities to set up governing bodies for children's centres.
Other measures include setting up statutory children's trusts so that schools and social services work together to protect children.
Children's secretary Ed Balls said, 'We are also legislating to ensure that every local authority has a Children's Trust Board with responsibility for improving the well-being of children in their area. This will allow us to strengthen local arrangements to support children as they are growing up, and their parents.'
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