The failure of health services to share birth data with children’s centres, fragmented commissioning by agencies and a lack of shared vision across the early years, can mean that families are missing out on support, the Early Intervention Foundation report says.
It calls for local areas to work together to undertake an integrated review of two-year-olds, consider the role of children’s centres as part of an integrated 0-5 system and provide families needing extra help with a named worker who can co-ordinate services.
It also recommends the appointment of a national figurehead to lead on integration across the workforce and develop plans for an integrated inspection framework to bring together the work of Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission.
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