History was made earlier this year when the government transferred responsibility for youth policy out of the education portfolio for the first time since World War Two.
The move to the Cabinet Office caused concern to some in the sector, who felt it would undermine youth work's traditional links with education.
But civil society minister Nick Hurd, who now oversees youth policy, is keen to point out why the decision was made. "We sit within government - at the centre of it - and can do a more effective job co-ordinating what is going on across Whitehall," he explains, as we speak in his office at the Cabinet Office.
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