| Responsibility for youth strategy and policy is to move from the Department for Education to the Cabinet Office. Responsibilities will include: the statutory duty on local authorities for youth provision in their area; and engaging in strategic dialogue with young people and youth sector organisations on youth policy. The government has also published a progress report on Positive for Youth, an initiative to involve young people in decision making. |
| Source: Cabinet Office Press Release 03 July 2013 |
| Further information: Positive for youth: progress since December 2011 |
