COMMUNITIESThe man who will be responsible for delivering the government’s strategy for new approaches to housing, communities and regeneration, has been named as Richard McCarthy, currently Chief Executive of the Peabody Trust. He will take up the post of Director General of Sustainable Communities working in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

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The government has announced the creation of thirty-five Children’s Trust pathfinders which will help a radical drive to transform the delivery of services for children. The pathfinders will bring together children’s Social Services, Education and Health Services into a single local structure designed around the needs of children, young people and their families.The move was announced jointly by the Health Minister, Stephen Ladyman and the Children’s Minister, Margaret Hodge, who said the setting up of the Pathfinders system marked the start of a drive to bring together children’s services to provide coordinated support to children and families. The first trusts, she said, would help the government to establish what worked as it built integrated services in local communities.

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