As Young People Now went to press, it was the Home Office's "understanding" that Goggins would become minister for children and young people as part of the role of prisons and probation minister. This would be in line with Benn's position, taken on after John Denham resigned over the Iraq war (YPN, 26 March-1 April, p2).
The reshuffle follows Clare Short's resignation as international development secretary.
The National Youth Agency had previously expressed concern about the continuing connection between youth and crime being made in the Home Office when Denham was appointed. Tom Wylie, the agency's chief executive, reiterated that it was important that the ministerial duties of prisons and probation did not "contaminate" the Home Office's views about young people.
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