Cut benefits to fund work support for young people, says Neet review author Alan Milburn
Source: The Guardian ·
Exclusive: Former health secretary says upfront investment in support is needed ‘if we are going to end the Neet crisis’Ministers should cut welfare spending to fund more employment support if it wants to end the youth Neet crisis, the author of a government-led review has said.Alan Milburn, the Tony Blair-era health secretary, told the Guardian he believed ministers should reduce benefits…
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Ministers should cut welfare spending to fund more employment support if it wants to end the youth Neet crisis, the author of a government-led review has said. Alan Milburn, the Tony Blair-era health secretary, told the Guardian he believed ministers should reduce benefits payments to help pay for more employment support, opening a potentially contentious debate within the Labour party over welfare cuts. His intervention comes in the run-up to John Healey’s first budget, at which the chancellor is under pressure to explain how he will reduce a multibillion-pound black hole in the country’s finances and pay for more cost of living support without increasing borrowing. “We’ve got to have a different conversation about the welfare system, it just isn’t working for young people,” Milburn told the Guardian. “We need to redistribute money from the welfare system to more employment support if we are going to end the Neet crisis.” Milburn’s review of why so many 18- to 24-year-olds are not…
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