Labour would introduce a single number, like the NHS number, to hold children's records across different services together, Bridget Phillipson has said."Labour will bring a simple single number, like the NHS number that holds records together and that stops children's needs falling between the gaps within schools and between them, between all of the services that wrap around them," she said in a speech at the Centre for Social Justice.

Labour would introduce a single number, like the NHS number, to hold children's records across different services together, Bridget Phillipson has said."Labour will bring a simple single number, like the NHS number that holds records together and that stops children's needs falling between the gaps within schools and between them, between all of the services that wrap around them," she said in a speech at the Centre for Social Justice.