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Alan Milburn

44 days ago

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

The diagnosis is dire. Alan Milburn has published the firs…

A landmark government-backed report has warned that the UK risks a ‘lost generation’ of young people, as new figures show that more than 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK were not in education,…

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Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, is introducing Alan Milburn.

He says Milburn…

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

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Former Labour Cabinet minister Alan Milburn said that the total was more than the country spends on education each year.
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.
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.

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