Alan Milburn warned that just £1 is spent on getting young people back into work for every £25 spent on benefits

The former health secretary warned the situation led to ‘incalculable costs for their life chances’.

Former health secretary Alan Milburn claimed his review found the state was spending 25 times more on welfare for young people than on measures to get them into jobs

Announcement comes after Alan Milburn says Britain has neglected generation of young people struggling to access work and training opportunities

Alan Milburn warned that just £1 is spent on getting young people back into work for every £25 spent on benefits

Alan Milburn, the Blair-era health secretary, is set to publish a review into young Neets on Thursday, looking over welfare and recruitment.

Labour's worklessness tsar will pave the way for a package of recommended changes to be unveiled in the autumn

Young people not in education, employment, or training face ‘hopeless catch-22’, Alan Milburn warns

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In a sobering assessment in his long-awaited report, Alan Milburn says the number of so-called Neets is on course to jump by a quarter to 1.25million.

Alan Milburn warns of ‘lost generation’ after number of young people not in work or education rises to more than 1m

Alan Milburn’s review into youth unemployment lays bare the scale of the crisis affecting Britain’s young people. Here, The Independent runs through the report’s key findings

The former Labour minister warned against solely blaming the chancellor for the scale of the crisis facing the nation

For years, Britain’s welfare debate has revolved around one question: how can we prevent the spiralling numbers of people moving onto benefits, particularly among the young. It…

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, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Editorial: With his interim report about the crisis in youth employment, the former Labour minister has shown that poverty, economic exclusion, mental illness and hopelessness are…

More than a million young people are not just unemployed, they aren't learning and if they claim benefits at 16 many are likely to spend almost as many years out of work with the…

Today's report calls for more focus on helping the 1 million young people in the UK who aren't in education, work or training.