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Youth unemployment - a national emergency?

4/19/202651 min

Why are one million young people not in education, employment or training? Is the benefits system part of the problem? Are schools out of date? What’s the alternative?  

Steph talks to former health minister Alan Milburn – who is leading a review into NEETS -about the systemic health and structural barriers to work. They discuss the cost to the economy and the alarming stat that if a young person doesn’t get a job by the time they’re 24 they’re unlikely ever to. Fortunately Alan thinks he has the solution.

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Clips

Predicting NEETs at Age Four
Rethinking Benefits For Youth
Challenging Government With Change
First Jobs Disappearing Fast
Two Hundred Applications, No Reply
University Isn’t The Only Path
Schools Are Already Outdated
A Visceral National Concern

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First 90 seconds

  1. Alan Milburn· Guest0:01

    This is a visceral issue for the country. Leading this review into young people and employment for, for, for the government. If they formed a city, that would be the third biggest in the UK.

  2. Steph McGovern· Host0:09

    Yeah.

  3. Alan Milburn· Guest0:09

    So it's one in eight from 16 to 24-year-olds, so the scale of it is enormous.

  4. Steph McGovern· Host0:14

    There's so many elements to this, but do you genuinely think we're gonna see change?

  5. Alan Milburn· Guest0:19

    Yeah, and you might have anxiety and depression, but diagnosis shouldn't automatically lead to you being signed off by a GP with a fit note. Then politically, this is a huge issue for the government. Let's remember, this is a government that was elected on a one-word slogan. What was it? Change.

  6. Steph McGovern· Host0:39

    [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to The Rest is Money with me, Steph McGovern. Now, Robert is currently in the Gulf with the prime minister at the time of recording this. I'm sure he'll have lots to tell us about it when he's back. So I've been left in charge, and today we have a friend of the show on, Alan Milburn, who's a familiar face in British politics. He served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care under Tony Blair. He was responsible for modernizing the NHS, marrying together parts of the public and private sector, and he's also hot on social mobility as the former chair of the Social Mobility Commission. And in that vein, he's now very much focused on looking at the issues of unemployment, and particularly

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