With the number of young people classed as not in education, employment or training (NEETs) now exceeding a million, only a fool would underestimate the scale of the crisis.
Yet, equally, it hardly takes a genius to figure out that Andy Burnham‘s proposed solution appears to be coming from a completely wrong angle.
No one disputes that encouraging apprenticeships and vocational training is a sensible idea. But offering further handouts to individuals already on benefits seems like a very peculiar way of going about it.
On a more basic level, Mr Burnham’s ill-conceived plan fails to address the underlying issue of a generation
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