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…
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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…