Education secretary Charles Clarke revealed that his department would bring out a green paper on youth in the autumn, admitting that services for young people were "complicated and unclear". The document could propose the end of Connexions as a separate agency.
Elsewhere in the five-year plan the DfES said it was particularly concerned to increase the support available to care leavers to help them make the transition into adulthood.
National Youth Agency chief executive Tom Wylie said the green paper would be a "great opportunity to further rationalise the way we support young people, to improve co-ordination and to improve quality".
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