"This is a story of lost lives,"
"a social catastrophe, an economic catastrophe and a political catastrophe"
"I grew up in this area and I know what life is like here. It might be a long time ago but you never forget. "It was 50 years ago and you never forget just how hard it is for people to get the opportunities and chances that I had in my life.""
""It implies there is a choice whereas there is not really a choice," "It is so easy to just blame people rather than looking at the whole thing and think - 'actually what are we doing'.""
Alan Milburn returned to his childhood home in Benwell while leading a government review into rising numbers of young people not in education, employment or training. Almost one million 16-to-24-year-olds are NEET, the highest level in more than a decade. More than half of that group are economically inactive and not seeking work. The north-east of England is among the hardest regions for young people to find employment. The situation is described as a social, economic and political catastrophe. Local youth workers criticize the term "Neet" as stigmatizing, misleading and unfairly blaming individuals.
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