Former health secretary Alan Milburn has warned of the risk of a lost generation of young people as the latest statistics underline a worsening crisis of 16-24-year-olds not in education, employment...
The benefit system provides a financial deterrent to families of young people pursuing apprenticeships, because some families would, overall, be worse off than if the young person stayed in full-time...
A £3,000 wage subsidy for employers taking on young unemployed people and changes to the apprenticeship system were among an expanded package of measures hoped to tackle youth employment, amid...
An investigation into the causes of record unemployment and economic inactivity among young people has been launched by the former health secretary Alan Milburn, who has promised to take a radical,...
UK GDP would be boosted by £26bn if the government addressed the growing number of young people not in education, employment or training, according to the findings of a PwC study.
The government faces calls to scrap plans to abolish lower minimum wage rates for young workers as the number of 16-24 year olds not in education, employment or training approaches one million.
Young care leavers in Wales will have access to a minimum monthly payment from the government as part of a pilot scheme to test the effects a basic income might have on poverty, employment and health.
Young offenders should serve their sentences in secure schools rather than prisons, initial findings from former head teacher Charlie Taylor’s review into youth justice suggest.
Plans to cut funding to youth offending teams by £9m before April will throw agreed local plans to tackle crime into jeopardy and could result in an increase in the number of people in custody...
Proposed in-year cuts to the funding for youth offending teams in England and Wales will undermine early intervention work and are likely lead to higher costs in the future, the government has been...
Services for young people not in employment, education or training will be at risk by the end of the decade unless the government works with local authorities to reach a new funding deal, ministers...
