Labour must reform welfare or condemn a ‘lost generation’ of young people to a life on the dole, the party will be warned today.
Former Labour cabinet minister Alan Milburn is set to sound the alarm on youth unemployment, saying that without urgent action, one in six youngsters will be on jobless benefits by the end of the decade.
In a sobering assessment in his long–awaited report, he says the number of so–called Neets – those who are not in education, employment or training – is on course to jump by a quarter to 1.25million.
Britain’s youth jobs crisis is already worse than
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