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Pat McFadden says Labour must stop ‘simple writing a cheque’ for benefit claimants

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The Independent UK

Labour must stop just ‘writing a cheque’ for benefit claimants, top minister says

Andy Burnham is said to be preparing to try to reform the welfare system as Pat McFadden said the government ‘owes people more’ than simply ‘writing a cheque’

The Independent UK

Labour must stop just writing a cheque for benefit claimants, says McFadden

Exclusive: Work and pensions secretary signals possible reform to welfare as ministers await key reviews

The Guardian - UK

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Disability benefits face massive overhaul after Timms review findings

‘Our message is simple: Pip is not working,’ the review is expected to say

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on apprenticeships: young people need help getting started at work

Editorial: Existing staff are taking too much of a fund intended for new recruits. Ministers must take charge of redirecting it

The Guardian - UK

What are Andy Burnham’s policies on benefits reform? Everything we know

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The Independent UK

Burnham will push for benefits reform and knows it’s ‘absolutely necessary’, welfare tsar says

Former health secretary Alan Milburn says he and the presumptive prime minister have already ‘discussed privately’ the issue of welfare reform

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Burnham will stand or fall on his plans for youth employment: he must put the next generation first

Labour has to match the success of its New Deal for young people in the late 1990s, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Reversing UK employment tax rises ‘would do little to help young people find jobs’

Resolution Foundation calls for extra funding for apprenticeships and increase in number of youth support grants

The Guardian - UK

Subsidies most cost-effective method of solving youth job crisis, report warns

The Resolution Foundation warned that the number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) risked ‘scarring the living standards of a generation’

The Independent UK

British firms to get £3,000 for every long-term jobless youngster they hire

Scheme aims to help 60,000 people aged 18-24 into work under plans to cut welfare bill and tackle youth jobs crisis

The Guardian - UK

'I Applied for 500 Jobs': Why Young Britons Say Breaking Into the Workforce Feels Impossible

More than one million young Britons are now NEET, with graduates describing a job market dominated by automated hiring systems, repeated rejections and shrinking entry-level opportunities.

International Business Times UK

Government’s cost-of-living champion urges Labour to cut pensions triple lock

Iceland’s executive chairman Lord Walker of Broxton said the state pension policy was unaffordable.

Evening Standard

Young people in Britain are suffering a joblessness epidemic – and, so far, Labour is just making it worse

Youth unemployment is harming the mental health of a generation. A sluggish economy will only make things harder, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

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The Independent UK

UK retail bosses warn government taxes ‘making it harder to hire young people’

The government drafted in former Marks & Spencer chief executive Marc Bolland to help get more young people into work

Evening Standard

Government policy pricing out firms from hiring young people, retail bosses warn

Official figures show that the number of young people neither working nor learning has jumped beyond one million for the first time since 2013.

The Independent UK

Labour urged to ‘call time’ on the triple lock to cut welfare spending

The cost of the state pension guarantee is ‘exorbitant’, researchers warn

The Guardian - UK

Labour has to reassess what it is for, and that is no bad thing

Letters: Responding to an article by Polly Toynbee, Patrick Diamond says the party must have courage to think anew. Plus letters from Tom Kelly and Michael Orton

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The Guardian - UK

UK’s biggest retailers urge government to act on youth unemployment

Bosses of M&S, Sainsbury’s and Tesco among those writing to Starmer that the ‘ladder of opportunity’ is wobbling

The Guardian - UK

Young people need money because our system is rigged. Here’s a way to give it to them

One plan would see young workers offered early access to a slice of future pensions. It’s not perfect, but we need bold ideas, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Independent UK

M&S launches training scheme for 1,000 young adults to tackle unemployment

A key review warned of a ‘lost generation’ as more than a million young people are not in employment, education or training

The Independent UK

One in 10 new UK graduates plan to leave country amid ‘worst time in 30 years to leave university’

Intense competition for fewer graduate job opportunities is driving many to look abroad

The Guardian - UK

Careers guidance should be at the centre of Alan Milburn’s final Neet report

Letter: Dr Deirdre Hughes says the issue of chronic underinvestment in high-quality, impartial careers guidance across schools, colleges and communities needs to be addressed

Evening Standard

The big shorts: Next week in the City

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The Independent UK

Unemployment to hit 2m under Labour, business group warns

Lack of jobs worst for the 16-24 year olds

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