Speaking at youth work conference Creative Collisions, Labour's Lisa Nandy said that young people know more about their needs than politicians and their opportunities could be improved if they were involved in the design and commissioning of their youth services.
“I think that’s the sort of model we should be moving to around the country, where young people are involved right from the outset,” she said.
Addressing young people directly, she added: "You are the people who know what the problems are and quite often you are the people who will help us find the solutions – we have to build on the potential that young people have and not the problems they have.”
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