The party's 2015 general election manifesto, published yesterday, contains no reference to a previously announced commitment to make local authority youth services statutory.
In 2011 party leader Ed Miliband said he would make youth services statutory if Labour formed the next government.
The following year Karen Buck, who at the time was Labour's shadow minister for young people, told CYP Now that the party was committed to making local authorities legally responsible for providing a minimum level of provision for young people.
However the pledge does not appear in the manifesto, and Labour's shadow children's minister Steve McCabe has confirmed to CYP Now that the party has backtracked on the commitment.
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