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M&S boss to the rescue as youth worklessness crisis set to surge
Marc Bolland has the task of lifting the million young people not in work, education and training out of despair and into a fulfilling new life
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The Guardian Politics30 May 2026
Rise in youth unemployment driving more to homelessness, UK charities say
Centrepoint warns young people facing ‘huge scarcity of work opportunities’ after Alan Milburn’s report on crisis The growing number of young people not in work or education is driving more into unstable housing or homelessness, charities have warned. A government-commissioned review into the crisis facing young people in the UK said there could be a 25% rise in young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) to 1.25 million by the early 2030s without intervention. Continue reading
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Guido Fawkes29 May 2026
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The Guardian Politics29 May 2026
Minister insists Labour will not apply national living wage to all over-18s before election – UK politics live
Torsten Bell says Labour manifesto ‘did not set out the timeline’ for changes to living wage after scale of youth unemployment crisis revealed in Milburn report Good morning. Last night Alan Milburn suggested that he would like the government to drop its commitment to pay all people over the age of 18 the national living wage. The former Labour health secretary was speaking after he published a major report on the rise in the number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet)
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The Guardian Politics28 May 2026
The Guardian view on jobs and training: boosting young people’s chances should be a national mission | Editorial
Colleges and placements can help the 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds who aren’t earning or learning. But what they need most is work For a few days at least, political attention is focused on young people aged 16-24 who are not in education, employment or training (known as Neets). A report from the commission led by Alan Milburn, a former health secretary, shines a bright light on a group that needs it. The document concentrates on analysis, with recommendations due in the autumn. Describing prob
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The Guardian Politics28 May 2026
Alan Milburn is right, a young generation has been betrayed. Forget Tony Blair: we must attend to this | Polly Toynbee
The new and excoriating account of the dire prospects for UK young people is a call to action. It could be the Beveridge report for our time The diagnosis is dire. Alan Milburn has published the first part of his forensic report on the lives and chances of young people, their fate after leaving school or college, the inadequacy of their health, education and pastoral care, and the reluctance of employers to hire them. This is a “moral crisis”, he says. There are now more than a million young pe
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The Guardian Politics28 May 2026
‘Lost generation’: why can’t young people get jobs? – The Latest
A landmark report has warned that the UK risks a ‘lost generation’ of young people, as new figures show that more than 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK were not in education, employment or training. The former Labour cabinet minister Alan Milburn said youth disengagement was a mounting economic risk to the country, and urged a fundamental reset of policy covering schools, the health service and the welfare state. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, Richard
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Conservative Home28 May 2026
Festus Akinbusoye: The Government’s SEND reforms are not badly intentioned, but they’ll be bad for those they are supposed to help
What I am not persuaded of is that restricting the legal entitlements of children who depend on them constitutes a solution rather than a postponement, and a costly one at that. The consequences of getting this wrong will not appear in the Department for Education's accounts. The post Festus Akinbusoye: The Government’s SEND reforms are not badly intentioned, but they’ll be bad for those they are supposed to help appeared first on Conservative Home.
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The Guardian Politics28 May 2026
UK risks £125bn hit a year from youth unemployment, landmark report says
Alan Milburn warns of ‘lost generation’ after number of young people not in work or education rises to more than 1m Britain risks a financial hit worth £125bn a year from a worsening crisis in youth worklessness after a rise in the number of young people not in employment or education to more than 1 million. In a landmark government-backed report, Alan Milburn warned Britain’s economy and the public finances were losing billions of pounds a year amid the growing risk of a “lost generation” of yo
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The Guardian Politics28 May 2026
‘A record of failure’: what’s in the first part of Alan Milburn’s Neet report?
The former minister paints damning picture of structural issues affecting 1 million young people in the UK Alan Milburn, the Blair-era cabinet minister turned social mobility adviser, has delivered the first part of his government-commissioned report on why increasing numbers of people aged 16 to 24 are not in education, employment or training (Neet). Its 217 pages cover the extent and causes of the issue – with possible solutions coming in his next report – and set out a hugely detailed and dam
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Guido Fawkes28 May 2026
Number of Young People Not in Employment, Education or Training Passes 1 Million
New ONS figures show the number of 16 to 24 year olds not in education, employment or training (NEET) has passed a million. There are now 1,012,000 young people classed as NEET in the UK, up 89,000 on the year and 55,000 on the quarter. That is 13.5% of all 16 to 24 year olds,…
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The Guardian Politics28 May 2026
Minimum wage rise has made it difficult for employers to hire young people, says Alan Milburn – UK politics live
Government-commissioned report on young people not in employment, education or training to be published by review chair Milburn today Good morning. For the second day in a row, the Westminster news is dominated by the thoughts of a leading Labour figure from the Tony Blair. But this time it’s an intervention commissioned, and welcomed, by Keir Starmer’s government. Alan Milburn, who has health secretary under Tony Blair, once seen as a future PM, and later chair of the Social Mobility Commisson,
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