The Latest Breaking News from Alan Milburn

Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs

PM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27

Schools to offer pupils technical subjects from age 14 under Burnham reforms

The new Prime Minister said a shake-up is needed to to fix the ‘youth unemployment crisis’.

Evening Standard · Jul 27

Most in demand jobs in UK revealed – and the locations where vacancies are rising the most

There were a total of 1.7 million job adverts in June, a 9% increase on May and 11% up on a year ago, said the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (Rec)

The Independent UK · Jul 16

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 · Jul 6

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

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The Independent UK · Jul 6

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

The Independent UK · Jul 6

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 · Jun 29

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 · Jun 29

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 · Jun 28

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 · Jun 28