We need, and Labour will bring, a simple single number like the NHS number that holds records together, and stops children's needs falling through gaps within schools and between them, between all the services that wrap around them, Phillipson said.
Labour's policy was announced by opposition leader Kier Starmer in July, when the party said it would pilot the use of a children's number for use in education, social care, and other support services.
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