Tom Wylie, chief executive of the agency, cautioned against treating youth services under the same banner as provision for children's services.
"There's a general anxiety about trusts and the role of the children's commissioner," he said. "Will children's trusts really deal with the adolescent agenda? Because of its very name, it will be focused more on children and issues such as child protection."
Wylie believes that even in the social services sector, there is a feeling that the prevention agenda has been torn apart. He pointed to education watchdog Ofsted's recently released criteria for the standards by which children's trusts will be judged as a sign of the way youth services would be treated.
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