The commission was created to feed into a government consultation on the local authority duty to secure sufficient activities for young people, which closed last Friday (25 May).
Alex Stutz, NYA head of policy and commission secretariat, said: “We think there is a real role for central government to set out what it expects in terms of an offer. It tried to do that in the guidance but we don’t think that is clear enough.”
He added that a sufficient offer must differentiate between targeted and universal services.
“There’s a real struggle between targeted and open access approach,” he said. “You can’t have a sufficient offer without open access services. There is no point focusing just on targeted services without open access. It is going to lead to an increase in the conveyer belt of need."
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