The work, which will involve the creation of "sufficiency measures", is intended to feed into a government consultation on plans to revise existing guidance on the duty to secure sufficient activities for young people.
Proposals to slim down the existing guidance were announced in the Positive for Youth policy paper, unveiled last month.
Speaking at a conference in London on the future role of councils in supporting young people yesterday (17 January), Fiona Blacke, chief executive of the NYA, said plans to create a commission of four or five experts are in place.
"We think there is a conversation or work to be done to look across councils to see what sufficiency is and what is below that level," she said. "I think the [children's] minister [Tim Loughton] is quite supportive of us doing it."
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