A major new plan to reduce youth unemployment and the benefits bill will not save any money before the end of the decade and will actually require more taxpayer cash first, its architect has revealed.
Ministers have commissioned Blair-era cabinet minister Alan Milburn to come up with recommendations for cutting the number of NEETS – people aged 16-24 not in education, employment or training.
An estimated 981,000 people were classified as NEETS between April and June 2026. While this was a slight fall from the more than one million in the first quarter of the year, the figure remains 30,000 higher than
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