Plans to join up health and social care provide for closer working but they stop short of creating community budgets and relaxing the grip of Whitehall on local services.

Despite the success of the community budget model in responding to the needs of troubled families and other pathfinder projects across the country, the new plans involve yet another attempt at closer working within existing structures. National leaders of health and care organisations have signed up to a series of commitments on how they will help local areas integrate services.

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