Speaking at the Confederation of Heads of Young People’s Service (CHYPS) annual convention in Birmingham today (8 November), Loughton said he did not want to outline specific examples of when he believes intervention should occur.
Instead he suggested that performance tables could be created similar to those monitoring the outcomes of children in care.
"It really concentrates people’s minds on why some areas are doing well and others are not," he said.
"If you can produce some sort of criteria for where young people’s services are scored by young people themselves, I am all for seeing where they are doing well and asking questions where they are really not doing well."
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