Speaking at a fringe event staged by the Confederation of Heads of Young People’s Services at the Labour conference in Liverpool, Toby Perkins said the idea will be broached in the party’s ongoing policy review.
"One of the things the policy review will look at is how do we represent the new bargain in terms of expectations on local authorities and what they offer," he said.
Within this, he added, there needed to be some sense of the government having responsibility for young people’s services and what that would look like.
"It is about how we offer the sort of guarantees in terms of our broad provision for young people in the context of a new financial settlement."
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