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...
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...
The UK has a peculiar problem with worklessness. Although unemployment remains relatively low, economic inactivity has shot up in the past few years. Why has this happened, and what should the...
MPs will investigate the causes and effects of the growth in the number of young people not in employment, education or training, whose numbers have now reached five times higher than the average...
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.
The government has been criticised for lacking information about its pandemic scheme set up to fight youth unemployment, meaning it does not know whether it is having the positive impact it was hoped...
The UK will need a job protection scheme to respond to the highest unemployment since the early 1990s, according to a report from think-tank the Resolution Foundation.
The government is to implement major reforms to unemployment support for under-25s from April 2017, with young people set to lose benefits if they turn down job offers, apprenticeships or training.
