Health Secretary Frank Dobson says it is partnerships, both local and national, and involving the NHS and voluntary bodies, that will lead to the sweeping changes needed in children’s services.His comments come after the launch of Quality Protects:Transforming Children’s Services, a major three year programme designed to help local authorities raise the quality of services for children at risk and children in care.

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Tony Blair has defined what he means by the ‘Third Way’ – his model for the values on which public sector services should be based during his Government.He said: “The Third Way is the route to renewal and success for modern progressive politics. Neither old left nor new right, it takes the essential values of the centre and centre-left – underpinning what in Europe is called social democracy and in the USA the progressive tradition – and applies them to a world of fundamental social and economic change, free from outdated ideology.”

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