Speaking at the annual conference of the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, Loughton said the youth sector needed to improve the dissemination of best practice and ensure projects are not launched unless they meet the needs and wants of young people.
He argued that one of the obstacles to encouraging organisations to work closer together and share best practice is "big personalities" within the sector.
"There are an awful lot of prima donnas in the youth sector," he said. "There are now 73,000 charities in this country dealing with children and families. That is unsustainable, so we have got to have some co-ordination and some consolidation within the sector so we have some stronger voices who are speaking for more people across the sector, we have started to see that."
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