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What is causing the rise of Neets? Data and trends behind youth unemployment as Andy Burnham addresses rising problem

Andy Burnham said he is ‘on a mission’ to halt the rise in the number of youngsters not in education, employment or training (Neet)

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham commits to cutting Neets numbers but declines to set a date

The Prime Minister unveiled reforms to put technical pathways on an equal footing with traditional academic routes.

Evening Standard

Burnham to end prioritising university in biggest schools reform for 15 years

PM also reveals he intends to cut the welfare bill by making some benefits conditional on working

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

The Independent UK

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

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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 Independent 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 Guardian - 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

International Business Times 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.

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Evening Standard

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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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

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