A final version of the document, published by the Department for Education, sets out how councils should plan and commission services for young people.
Revisions to the guidance include compelling councils to pay regard to the general principles of the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child when securing a local offer of youth services.
Councils must also publish annual details of feedback from young people on the quality of the local offer and publish annual plans for how young people’s wellbeing and social and personal development will be improved.
However, David Wright, chief executive of the Confederation of Heads of Young People’s Services (CHYPS), said there remains a lack of “objective measures” on which to judge whether a local authority is providing sufficient services.
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