children's services

Services organized but not necessarily provided by health, education, social care, police or youth justice agencies with the purpose of improving children's health or development. They include all agencies working with children, among them purchasers and voluntary and private providers. Following the UK Children Act, 2004 local authorities replaced administrative departments of education and social care with departments of children's services to work closely with health, youth justice and other agencies.

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