The Role of Mental Health Issues in Youth Unemployment
Almost one million people aged 16 to 24 are not in education, work or training, often described by the acronym nanets. Milburn will be looking at ways to avoid people being trapped as the neets and the findings are published over the summer.
The government announced the review four days after publishing the findings of another review, by former John Lewis Boss that “aged 16 to 34 are one of the key cohorts affected by a” key cohorts affected by a “key cohorts affected by a” key cohorts affected by a “key cohorts affected by a” keys cohorts affected by a “primary cohorts affected by an” economic inactivity crisis “.
The number of 16- to 34-year-olds with a mental health condition that is inactive due to long-term illness will increase by three-quarters, between 2019 and 2024, Mayfield’s review found.
While a series of Reviews, REPORT and white paper The problems are well known, with successive Conservative and Labor governments struggling to arrest the decline in neets.
The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is expected to announce funding in this month’s budget for a “Youth Guarantee” which will be in universal credit for 18 months without earning or learning.
Pat McFadden, the secretary of state for work and pensions, said: “The rising number of young people who are not in education, employment or training is a crisis of opportunity that demands more action to give them the chance to learn or earn. We cannot afford to lose a generation of young people to a life on benefits, with no work prospects and not enough hope.”
The Department for Work and Pensions said Milburn’s review would “make practical recommendations to help conditions to access health, training or education – ensuring they are supported, not supported”.
It said the findings would link to another review, the Timms review, which looked at the payment of personal independence, which covers the additional costs of physical and mental disability.
Milburn was Health Secretary from 1999 to 2003 under Tony Blair, and was appointed last year as the lead director of the Department of Health and Social Care.
He said that he is “not a single unfolding of the failures of the support of work, education, health and well-being and changing the recommendations for change to learn and meet”.