Four years ago, the Department for Education and Skills published Learning to Listen, which set out core principles for the involvement of young people in decisions made about their lives and the services aimed at them.
Ministers signed up, promising action plans and feedback showing how young people's voices were making change happen.
All was going well. This approach seemed sensible, the prospects looked good. The old Children and Young People's Unit was to co-ordinate this effort across government, and cultural change would follow. One slight doubt was that change was to happen on the terms of individual departments.
There was no stick and the only carrot available was the competitive instincts of ministers.
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