The Children and Young People's Unit (CYPU) is soon to be no more.
The whirlwind of change that has swept through the youth sector since Margaret Hodge was appointed children and young people's minister has claimed another victim.
The death of the CYPU is part of a wider restructuring of the Department for Education and Skills' Children and Families Directorate designed to prime the Government for delivering on the plans in the recent green paper, Every Child Matters (YPN, 5-11 November, p2).
The most obvious change will be the addition of "young people" to the directorate's name and the arrival of Tom Jeffery, a former director of children's services at the Department of Health, in the director-general's seat (YPN, 29 October, p2). The renaming of the directorate is more than symbolic, believes Tom Wylie, chief executive of The National Youth Agency. "It is a further signal, like the change of Hodge's title to include young people, that they are grasping the young people agenda," he says.
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