Milburn review calls for tracking young Neets

Nearly a million young people out of work

Just under a million sixteen to twenty-four year olds in the UK, thirteen percent, are classified as Neet, meaning not in education, employment or training.This is up from six hundred seventy-three thousand in twenty twenty-one.

Most Neets want to work but never have

Forty-five percent of today's twenty-four year old Neets have never had a job, despite eighty-four percent saying they actively want to learn or work.

“whole system failure”

Youth services have been cut dramatically

Council spending on youth services in England fell by seventy-three percent between twenty ten slash eleven and twenty twenty-three slash twenty-four. The number of full-time youth workers dropped by thirty-four percent over the same period.

Milburn's review recommends local youth services

Alan Milburn's review will recommend the government set up locally-led youth services in every community in England. It will draw on policies in the Netherlands, where the Neet rate is just four point one percent.

Youth workers should knock on doors

The review will urge local authorities to adopt a proactive outreach model where youth workers engage directly with young people in their own neighbourhoods.

“youth workers who quite literally knock on doors, to make sure young people are getting the help they need to earn or learn”

Government plans Young Futures Hubs

The review will back the government's National Youth Strategy and its plan to open up to fifty Young Futures Hubs, designed to combine mental health support, career guidance, and a local youth club.

Government to consider welfare reforms

The government will look at reforms to the welfare system after Milburn's review is published.

“crude cuts”