Also launched today (11 December) was a new Children's Workforce Strategy to improve recruitment, training and support for the children's and young people's workforce.
Early years workers and other professionals will receive a summary document of the Children's Plan progress report, which will be sent to every school, every head teacher, every children's centre, every GP and all directors of children's services.
A new interactive website - an online Children's Plan 'village'- was also launched to enable children's professionals and parents to see how the Children's Plan works in their community.
Stressing the need for 'a culture of early intervention and prevention', children's secretary Ed Balls said, 'We've made substantial progress in the last year, but there is still a lot more to do to make sure that children are safe, that their well-being is promoted, that we have proper engagement with parents, that we're really intervening early to spot problems, that agencies are working closely together.'
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