A NEET Mess: What Wales Tells Us About Milburn and System Alignment
Yusuf Ibrahim, Vice Principal at CAVC, takes Alan Milburn’s interim review as a starting point and asks what the Welsh data really tells us about…
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Number 10 North: What Could Andy Burnham’s Vision and Manchesterism Actually Mean for Skills, Young People and the Welfare Trap?
Andy Burnham hasn’t become Prime Minister yet. His speech at the People’s History Museum in Manchester this afternoon reads less like a leadership pitch and…
Double Disadvantage: Are We Pointing the Skills Compass in the Right Direction? FE Soundbite 853
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 853: 27th June 2026. Double Disadvantage: Are We Pointing the Skills Compass in the Right Direction? This is the weekly…
The NEET Diagnosis is Shocking, it’s Time for Action not Rhetoric
Britain’s NEET crisis is no longer a warning sign; it is a structural failure. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures (Jan-March 2026) estimate…
Is the Social Contract with Young People Broken and Can We Fix It?
Something struck me recently at the Breaking Barriers / NEET Collective, held in central London on 2nd June 2026 – a FE News and Edge…
Behind the Numbers: A Million Individual Stories
The Milburn Report landed with the force of a statistic that should stop us all in our tracks. Over one million young people in England…
A Job isn’t Enough for NEETs with Barriers
There’s a gulf between where many NEET young people are and where employers need them to be so that they can thrive in a job. The UK must find ways to bridge that gulf –…
Employers want the Genuine Article, not the Finished one
Youth worklessness is not new, but the scale of the challenge now demands urgent attention. Over a million young people in the UK are not…