In a video address to the General Federation of Trade Unions, McDonnell said he wants a statutory youth service, which would require councils to provide a minimum level of youth provision, to form part of Labour's existing pledge to create a national education service.
"I recognise that trade union work to engage with the younger generation will be assisted by the rebuilding of the youth service that has been so callously pulled apart by the Conservatives," McDonnell said.
"This is why I am supporting the inclusion in the next Labour Party manifesto of the commitment to create a statutory youth service as part of the national education service, creating lifelong learning from cradle to grave."
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