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.
Almost a million of our young people are NEETs – Not in Education, Employment or Training – a deceptively cosy label for a phenomenon blighting an entire generation.
This shameful state of affairs will come under the spotlight today when former Labour Cabinet minister Alan Milburn publishes the interim findings of his independent review into how our young people have come to be so badly let down.
Milburn – a sensible, old-school
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