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 door to opportunity closed.

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.