The local Connexions service, Wandsworth Youth Offending Team (YOT) and the council's youth services team will become part of a single unit controlled by the borough council's leisure department.
Roger Appleton, head of policy at Wandsworth Council, said: "The main driver is that more and more of these serv-ices are involved with the same young people. By bringing the services together, we can focus more resources on the young people and ensure they don't fall through the cracks."
Initially, the new unit, which will have an annual budget of 6.5m, will be co-managed by the existing heads of the three services.
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