Of the myriad problems facing the UK economy, the worst of all is the number of youngsters who have been consigned to the scrapheap before their working lives have even begun.

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

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Of the myriad problems facing the UK economy, the worst of all is the number of youngsters who have been consigned to the scrapheap before their working lives have even begun.

Milburn warned that the number of young Neets could rise to 1.25m within five years, with the current level already standing at 957,000.

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

Britain risks creating a "lost generation" as the number of young people out of work and education surges, a government-commissioned review warned Thursday.

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…

The Netherlands has the lowest rate of young people not in education, employment or training in the EU