The move has been welcomed by leading youth organisations, which have been calling for a "new, bolder approach to youth strategy" tailored to the specific challenges facing young people today.
The news follows a high-level meeting as part of the Prime Minister's recent Serious Youth Violence Summit.
The minister, Mims Davies, along with Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright, held a roundtable meeting with the youth sector, sports bodies, charities and creative organisations.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said the plan reaffirms the government's commitment to boost young people's voice on their priority issues, including serious violence and knife crime, mental and physical health challenges and concerns about the environment and climate change.
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