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Why Can’t Young People Get Jobs?

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. 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, employment or training.The former Labour cabinet minister Alan Milburn said youth disengagement was a mounting economic risk to the country, and urged a fundamental reset of policy covering schools, the health service and the welfare state.
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  • Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. Today, in his long awaited report, former minister Alan Milburn has said job and career opportunities for young people are ‘not growing, they’re shrinking’,... S1
  • 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, employment or training.The former Labour cabinet minister Al... S2
  • Britain risks creating a "lost generation" as the number of young people out of work and education surges, a government-commissioned review warned yesterday.The number of 16- to 24-year-olds not in em... S3
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