DWP Engineers Youth Unemployment Press Panic Ahead of Milburn Review

Alan Milburn’s NEET diagnosis must lead to local level solutions

Alan Milburn’s NEET diagnosis must lead to local level solutions sam.macrory Fri, 29/05/2026 - 13:52 Local leaders are best placed to support a “lost generation” of young people not in education, employment or training. 5 Comment Ben Paxton Martha Ford Institute for Government Yes Former health secretary Alan Milburn speaks to the media on the publication of the interim Milburn Report into Young People and Work. Public finances Education and sk…

Britain’s lost generation: 957,000 young people trapped between unemployment and invisibility

When Alan Milburn published the interim findings of his government-commissioned review into British youth unemployment, he used a phrase that should alarm every…

Mr Milburn’s historic NEET review deserves cross-party support

Editorial: With his interim report about the crisis in youth employment, the former Labour minister has shown that poverty, economic exclusion, mental illness and hopelessness are the giant social evils of our time. But, as he points out, there is also hope

'Milburn is right — I'm finishing my master's degree and fear I'll be a Neet'

Louis Guy is studying an integrated master's degree in chemical engineering — but he is pessimistic about his chances of employment or training when he finishes his programme

DWP engineers youth unemployment press panic ahead of Milburn Review

The long-awaited interim report into the Milburn Review on youth unemployment is expected today. In typical style, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are already steering the corporate media in its benefits-hating direction. DWP Milburn review out today In November 2025, the department announced an independent review into why so many young people were Not in Employment, Education of Training (NEETs). The review is run by Alan Milburn. He…

The Milburn report on the ‘UK’s ‘lost generation’ does look north, does spot some of Scotland’s strengths but should have tried much harder

By stewartb The interim report from the Milburn review examining the issues around NEETs gained a lot of MSM attention. See Milburn, A. (May 28, 2026) Independent report: Young people and work: interim report. Report for the Department for Work & Pensions. Its stated geographic scope is clear from the outset: it’s the whole of the UK. The report does acknowledge that certain germane policy areas are devolved: ‘Where policy areas discussed are de…