Alan Milburn

So the profile's changed.

But the really, really worrying thing that has changed is two things that are related.

The first is...

There's been a doubling in the number of young people who are NEAT, who report a health condition over the last 10 or 15 years.

And very many of them report a mental health or a neurodivergence condition like ADHD or

Yeah, autism.

So that's a really exponential rise.

This is definitely a more anxious generation.

There's no doubt about that.

So that has had a knock-on effect into the nature of...

youth unemployment, because it's no longer about unemployment, it's about detachment.

61% of this close to 1 million young people are economically inactive.

That means that they're not looking for work.

And if you're not looking for work, and if you don't have work in your early 20s, the chances that you're going to be in work in your 30s and 40s diminish exponentially.

And here's the most shocking statistic I've come across so far of many.

45% of 24-year-olds who are not in education, employment, and training have never had a job.

And if you haven't had a job by your mid-20s, your chances of getting a job in your 30s, 40s, 50s has a long-term scarring effect.

You can quantify it, actually.

On average, they could lose up to a million pounds worth of income during their lifetimes.

But that's on the tip of the iceberg.