A government-backed review warns that Britain faces a lost generation unless ministers urgently address collapsing youth employment. More than one million young people could be trapped outside work, education, or training within five years. The review led by Alan Milburn warns of a deepening generational fault line driven by fewer entry-level jobs and a system failing young people at the start of working lives. Interim findings project NEET rising from about one in eight to one in six by 2031, around 1.25 million people. The report links the crisis to disappearing first jobs, apprenticeships, and work experience, describing detachment as becoming permanent. It argues education, welfare, healthcare, and labour market structures are misaligned and that adding new programmes will not fix underlying failures.
"“We are at risk of a lost generation,” he will say. The review paints a bleak picture of a labour market in which first jobs, apprenticeships and work experience opportunities have steadily disappeared, leaving many young people locked in what Mr Milburn describes as a “hopeless Catch-22”. “Six in ten have never had a job,” he says. “Twenty years ago, that figure was closer to four in ten. Detachment is no longer temporary. For too many young people it is becoming permanent.”"
"In his interim findings, Mr Milburn warns that the number of young people classed as NEET - not in education, employment or training - could rise from around one in eight today to one in six by 2031, equivalent to approximately 1.25 million people. Speaking ahead of the report's publication, he described the scale of the crisis as “much worse” than he had initially anticipated."
"The report argues that Britain's education system, welfare state, healthcare structures and labour market are no longer properly aligned to help younger people into employment, warning that simply layering new programmes onto an already failing system will not solve the problem. It points to the disappearance of around 1.6 million low and medium-skilled jobs across the economy, alongside a sharp decline in traditional entry points into work."
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