The Green Paper from the Centre for Social Justice, an independent think-tank set up by Mr Duncan Smith, was published last week ahead of the Government's Green Paper on families.
It claims that early years training fails to take into account the importance of a child's neurological development and does not fully equip professionals to identify children experiencing parenting deficits.
The report, which is critical of Government policies on marriage and the family and points to evidence from the OECD of a negative impact single-parent households can have on children, suggests that councils employ a director of family services to sit above the directors of children's and adults' services. It proposes dividing the DCSF into the Department for Families and the Department for Education.
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