The call came in response to Young People Now's recent Joining Up conference about the future of young people's services under children's trusts (YPN, 16-22 June, p18).
Delegates want the youth minister to address their concerns when money is allocated to services in the imminent spending review.
YPN has formulated a 10-point manifesto (see opposite) reflecting the views of professionals and has sent it to the youth minister as a call to action.
Practitioners in all sectors of work with young people are concerned that the needs of young people will be subsumed under a child-protection agenda in the spending review and under children's trusts.
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