Speaking at Children Now's inaugural extended schools conference, Hughes said she was keen to give more power to young people and revealed that the long-awaited youth green paper would address the issue.
She said: "The focus will be on giving young people a range of activities to enhance their personal, social and educational development and hopefully reflect what they like doing.
"But more important even than that, it will discuss ways in which young people themselves can have some control over the size and shape and development of services that are there for them locally. I want to see more ways of giving them more power, more involvement, and to get the demand into the system to ensure that the supply better reflects what young people themselves actually want to do.
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