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Services for Young People

Young people would tell the hon. Lady—she did not answer my earlier question about whether she had met any young people from her constituency who had been on national citizen service—that they value being involved and having their views taken on board. Absolutely, they value having their questions and concerns answered. Whether or not young people get the answers that they want, they need to be taken seriously. Absolutely, we have tried to take on board young people's views and give them ownership of this youth policy. Positive for Youth is not a finished document that, as with so many other past Government reports, will go on shelf and gather dust. It is an evolving, organic and living document that I want every young person in the country to wave in the face of the leader of their local council and the mayor at their town hall and say, ““This is what Positive for Youth says should happen. We want it to happen here. How can we make it happen here? Why isn't it happening here?”” That is why a lot of things will evolve from it and why, in a year's time, I will come back to Positive for Youth and do an audit of what has and has not been achieved. I will go back to those areas of weakness, and I will also flag up areas of strength where we can learn from best practice, which we are particularly bad at doing.