The strategy, Building a future that works for everyone, published today, states that a review of the guidance for councils to provide "appropriate local youth services" is needed as a result of significant changes to the way services for young people are delivered since it was last scrutinised in 2012.
The document states that the review will provide "greater clarity of the government's expectations, including the value added by good youth work".
Under section 507B of the Education Act 1996, every local authority in England must "so far as reasonably practicable, secure for qualifying young persons…access to sufficient educational and leisure-time activities which are for the improvement of their wellbeing".
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