Britain faces a “generational fault line” in which more than 1.25 million young people could be out of work unless Labour overhauls the welfare, education and health system, the Government’s worklessness tsar has warned.
Alan Milburn, the New Labour-era former minister tasked by Sir Keir Starmer with carrying out an independent review of young people not in employment, education or training (Neet) said that the UK risked a “lost generation” who had never known work.
In an interim report to be published on Thursday, Milburn will outline the causes of the youth joblessness crisis and pave the way for a package of recommended reforms to be unveiled in the autumn.
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