The government agenda for 'Every Child Matters' requires a step-change in the children's workforce where the 'team around the child' works interprofessionally to ensure improved outcomes for children young people and their families. Traditional organisational professional and disciplinary boundaries must be addressed to ensure collaborative working. Given the need for higher education to play a significant role in this process to appropriately align student learning with new ways of working and since a large proportion of students in HE will join the Children's Workforce five Higher Education Academy Subject Centres commissioned the University of Sussex to undertake a Knowledge Review of integrated children's services in higher education.
