The meeting, announced at last week's Youth Justice Service Managers' conference in Stratford-upon-Avon, follows growing concern that young people who breached the orders were being sent to jail without coming into contact with a youth offending team. A date for the meeting has yet to be set, but is expected to happen "very soon".
Morgan also used the conference to play down worries that youth justice was at risk of being absorbed into children's trusts or the National Offender Management Service, the newly formed organisation headed by Narey that combines the adult prison and probation services.
"I have heard people say the developments in the National Offender Management Service and in children's trusts are a threat to youth offending teams and to the Youth Justice Board," said Morgan. "I do not see it this way.
I see the work of the youth offending teams and the Youth Justice Board as being between these two developments."
The point was underlined later by Narey and Tom Jeffery, head of the Department for Education and Skills' young people's directorate. They denied there was any intention of absorbing the youth justice system.
Narey also used his speech to warn against increased use of custody because it would lead to "overcrowding and injustice", and he backed the Youth Justice Board's decision to put more money into community-based alternatives to custody.
The event also saw Mark Perfect deliver his final address as chief executive of the Youth Justice Board. Perfect used his speech to reflect on the board's progress, including the reduction in the time from arrest to sentence for persistent young offenders, down from 142 days in 1996 to 66 days in 2003.
See News, p7.
