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

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

It comes as ex-Labour Cabinet minister Alan Milburn publishes his first major government-commissioned report into the number of ‘Neets’ - those not in education, employment, or…

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

Urgent action needed to avoid ‘lost generation’, says the former Labour health secretary’s report, due on Thursday

On Tuesday Tony Blair gave Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet of political makeweights a withering rebuke. And today it was the turn of another New Labour big beast to tell some…

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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.

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.

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

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

‘It is hard not to be pessimistic when you examine the data,’ former health secretary Alan Milburn says in the foreword to his report into young people doing nothing with their…

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

A new report by Alan Milburn warns 1.25million young people could be out of work, training or education within the next five years, known as 'Neet'. Three major charity leaders…

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

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…

Many young people told Alan Milburn that they had lost hope in the system. And that was also the warning from the would-be Labour leader Andy Burnham in an article in today's…