Addressing a Conservative Party Conference fringe event chaired by Children & Young People Now editor Ravi Chandiramani, Loughton argued that all councils should be testing the quality of their services to make sure they live up to the demands of young people.
"The biggest way in which we should judge whether youth services are working or not is by using young people to assess the services themselves," he said. "We need more youth mayors, more UK Youth Parliament members and more youth councils playing a role.
"We’re not going to be prescriptive and say that every town must have a youth mayor, but I want every local authority to have a recognised body of young people who have the keys to the town hall effectively, so they are recognised as being the voice of local young people and have some sort of auditing role."
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