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Rise in youth unemployment driving more to homelessness, UK charities say
Centrepoint warns young people facing ‘huge scarcity of work opportunities’ after Alan Milburn’s report on crisisThe growing number of young people not in work or education is driving more into…
Young people
What can the Dutch teach the UK about how to tackle the youth jobs crisis?
The Netherlands has the lowest rate of young people not in education, employment or training in the EUA shock government-backed report this week warned of the danger of a “lost…
Unemployment
‘Hundreds of job applications’: young people on their struggle to find work
Job seekers say the lack of opportunities has affected their mental health and left them fearing for the futureWhen Catherina finished her degree in digital film production in London, she…
Youth unemployment
The Guardian view on jobs and training: boosting young people’s chances should be a national mission | Editorial
Colleges and placements can help the 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds who aren’t earning or learning. But what they need most is workFor a few days at least, political attention…
Young people
Alan Milburn is right, a young generation has been betrayed. Forget Tony Blair: we must attend to this | Polly Toynbee
The new and excoriating account of the dire prospects for UK young people is a call to action. It could be the Beveridge report for our time The diagnosis is…
Unemployment
‘Lost generation’: why can’t young people get jobs? – The Latest
A landmark report has warned that the UK risks a ‘lost generation’ of young people, as new figures show that more than 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK…
UK unemployment and employment statistics
UK risks £125bn hit a year from youth unemployment, landmark report says
Alan Milburn warns of ‘lost generation’ after number of young people not in work or education rises to more than 1mBritain risks a financial hit worth £125bn a year from…
Young people
‘A record of failure’: what’s in the first part of Alan Milburn’s Neet report?
The former minister paints damning picture of structural issues affecting 1 million young people in the UKAlan Milburn, the Blair-era cabinet minister turned social mobility adviser, has delivered the first…
News
The new benefits reforms that could be on way for 16- to 24-year-olds
Labour's worklessness tsar will pave the way for a package of recommended changes to be unveiled in the autumn
Australian politics
Amanda Rishworth says jobseekers will no longer be forced to submit ‘endless’ pointless job applications
Welfare advocates say that while the reforms are a step in the right direction, the privatised employment services model has failed and should be torn upGet our breaking news email,…
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This European country is beating youth unemployment – what the UK can learn
Austria has consistently had some of the lowest youth unemployment rates in Europe
Unemployment
Labor to announce easing of jobseeker mutual obligations requirements in major overhaul of employment system
Employment minister Amanda Rishworth plans to move system from a ‘one size fits all’ employment services model to three streams of supportGet our breaking news email, free app or daily…
Unemployment
Vape shops but no jobs: one young man’s search for work in Grimsby
The Lincolnshire seaside town is often written off by YouTubers as a place defined by deprivation and decline. But for many young people it's a place they love and are…
Youth unemployment
Schools are not preparing young people for jobs | Letters
The education system should not just be about passing exams, writes David Selby. Plus a letter from Mara MussoTwo quotes in your article (Schools are ‘pipeline’ to joblessness for many…
Youth unemployment
Labour needs ‘system reset’ to tackle youth unemployment, report to say
Alan Milburn, who is leading review commissioned by government, says current strategy ‘going in wrong direction’Labour has failed to tackle soaring youth unemployment and must launch a “system reset” involving…
Youth unemployment
Labour to expand youth work experience and training schemes
Announcement comes after Alan Milburn says Britain has neglected generation of young people struggling to access work and training opportunitiesMinisters are expanding youth work experience and training schemes, after Alan…
Work & careers
A college degree once ensured prosperity – but gen z is finding ‘just not much out there’
Survey after survey show gen Z experiencing deep economic instability, plus eroding trust in US leadership and weakened social connectionsJes Vesconte graduated from one of California’s most prestigious art schools,…
World
India’s Gen Z have flipped the lowly cockroach into a symbol of defiance
The spiny, long-legged, and often reviled cockroach has become an unlikely symbol of dissent among India’s Gen Z, in a sharp rebuke to the ruling establishment in the world’s largest…