MPs voted last week to allow the UK Youth Parliament to hold its annual meeting in the House of Commons debating chamber. It will be the first time anyone other than a member of Parliament will be allowed to sit on the benches in the chamber.
The vote can be seen as a landmark symbolic victory for young people's views to be taken seriously. It chimes with the drive to put greater influence and responsibility into their hands.
The 10-year youth strategy set out a target for all local authorities to have 25 per cent of their spending on youth facilities to be determined by young people by 2018.
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