Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 26
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Support shared outcomes framework with implementation plan and clarify ministerial responsibility across departments.
Recommendation
The absence of a shared outcomes framework undermines accountability and hinders strategic planning across local systems. We welcome the Government’s plans to produce a shared outcomes framework. We recommend that the final framework be supported by an implementation plan that sets out how the Government will use the introduction of the framework to drive improved integration across the early years landscape. The Government should set out clearly who holds ministerial responsibility for the shared outcomes framework in both the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education and what further steps they will take to promote cross-departmental working. (Recommendation, Paragraph 135) 58