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What the Dutch can teach us about tackling youth unemployment

report last month found Britain is grappling with a youth engagement crisis - with nearly one in eight 16 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training (Neet). Alan Milburn

Original Abba members celebrate launch of expanded education programme in London

employment pathways in the years ahead.” The event comes a week after the publication of [Alan Milburn’s report into youth

UK has wealthy Europe’s ‘third-highest’ rate of young adults not in work or study

Alan Milburn, the former Labour health secretary, explores options for tackling the rise in youth unemployment for a government-commissioned review. Milburn is expected to publish the initial findings of his report later next month

Next boss warns over ‘dramatic fall’ in UK entry-level jobs

youth unemployment at the moment,” he [told the BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2024r6lzyro). Wolfson’s comments came as a report commissioned by the government is expected to find that Labour has failed to tackle the soaring

UK’s top retailers urge government to do more for jobless young people

Alan Milburn [set out a damning picture](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/28/a-record-of-failure-whats-in-the-first-part-of-alan-milburns-neet-report), calling it a “record of failure” that is letting down young people. He wrote: “We are at risk of a lost generation. [That

Schools are ‘pipeline’ to joblessness for many people, says ex-Labour adviser

Alan Milburn prepares to publish a highly anticipated report](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/26/rise-in-neets-young-people-not-in-work-education-uk-ons) into the crisis in youth jobs next week. Milburn told MPs on Wednesday that Britain risked facing a “generational problem” that was worse

Government spends 25 times more on benefits than jobs for young people, says Milburn

youth inactivity has said. Former minister Alan Milburn told the BBC that this was "shameful" and with nearly a million young people not in work or education (Neets), a complete "system reset" was needed

Pilot ‘hyperlocal’ job support scheme in England shows promising signs of effectiveness

Alan Milburn is reviewing this issue for the government, and underlined the scale of the problem in his interim report last month. Stephen Evans, the chief executive of [the Learning and Work Institute](https://learningandwork.org.uk

Labour needs ‘system reset’ to tackle youth unemployment, report to say

Alan Milburn, who is leading a review into why almost a million young people are not in education or work, said ministers had so far responded with a series of disjointed jobs programmes

‘Exam-obsessed’ schools leave pupils unready for work, Alan Milburn says

Alan Milburn has said, as new polling suggests teachers believe pupils are leaving education without the skills they need for adult life. Milburn, a former cabinet minister under Tony Blair and now leading a government

Labour to expand youth work experience and training schemes

Alan Milburn warned Britain is spending £25 keeping young people on benefits for every £1 spent helping them into work. Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary will announce plans for 300,000 extra work

Starmer to face Commons grilling at PMQs as Streeting plans resignation speech – UK politics live

report, UK supermarkets have been asked by the government to consider freezing the prices of some essential foodstuffs to protect the public from inflation fuelled by the Middle East conflict. This is not the same