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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Aine Fox

No easy solutions to fix youth unemployment crisis, says ex-Labour minister

Former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn speaks to the media on the publication of the interim Milburn Report into Young People and Work (Jeff Moore//PA) - (PA Wire)

The crisis of more than a million young people neither working nor learning has “no easy solutions”, a Labour former minister has warned amid fears of a lost generation without urgent change.

One-time health secretary Alan Milburn warned a “whole system failure” has led to nearly one in seven of the UK’s 16 to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training, known as Neets.

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