Speaking at CYP Now's Generation Neet (not in employment, education or training) event, Iain Wright told delegates that he is preparing a revised "three years on" version of Aiming High for Young People at the request of the Prime Minister.
He promised to look into the case for making youth services statutory, after Fiona Blacke, chief executive of the National Youth Agency, warned that local authorities with tight budgets are cutting early intervention services.
Blacke told Wright that young people could be prevented from becoming Neet if government strengthened the statutory basis for preventative youth services.
"There is a statutory basis for positive activities but it's not strong enough," she said.
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