Speaking at the CYP Now Awards last night (Wednesday), the minister said one of his "biggest challenges" was to look at how local authorities are delivering youth services.
He said: "Of course they have been lost in lots of areas. And sometimes what is being lost, it's ok to lose, because it was cr*p. But in other areas it's not, because these extra-curricular activities, these opportunities for young people to develop and be challenged and work with fantastic youth workers is incredibly important."
Hurd added that the Cabinet Office was committed to helping local authorities decide how best to deliver youth services.
He said: "What we're going to do is to map what's going around in the country and work with partners, work with local authorities, to say ‘how can we help you meet your statutory duty', ‘how can we develop new models', because there is some brilliant work going on around the country.
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