Britain is heading towards a serious economic problem and the warning is coming from someone who has sat inside the government. A former minister says the country risks losing an entire generation of young people to inactivity unless employers and policymakers change how they think about this age group.
Alan Milburn is set to publish an interim report next week looking at why close to one million 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK are currently not in employment, education or training. The group is referred to using the term NEET. Sky News reported that the report points to a "rising tide of mental ill health, anxiety, depression and neurodiversity" as a central reason behind this level of economic inactivity.
