The Government also launched last week its 2020 Children and YoungPeople's Workforce Strategy to improve recruitment, training and supportfor the workforce.
Early years workers and other professionals will receive a summarydocument of the Children's Plan progress report, which will be sent toevery school, every head teacher, every children's centre, every GP andall directors of children's services.
A new interactive website, designed as an online Children's Plan'village', was also launched to enable children's professionals andparents to see how the Children's Plan works in their community(www.dcsf.gov.uk/oneyearon).
Stressing the need for 'a culture of early intervention and prevention',children's secretary Ed Balls said, 'We've made substantial progress inthe last year, but there is still a lot more to do to make sure thatchildren are safe, that their well-being is promoted, that we haveproper engagement with parents, that we're really intervening early tospot problems, that agencies are working closely together.'
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