Alan Milburn

So New Deal isn't around anymore.

Kickstarter isn't around anymore.

These things come and go.

You've got to make sure that the problem is identified in the right way and the solution is more permanent.

So what is very obvious is that within the 1 million, there are different cohorts.

So there are some people who are very close to the labour market, probably just need a nudge over the edge.

But then there's a generation, and I've met, as I've been going around the country, talking to young people, meeting them.

there's a cohort who what i call the bedroom generation who's sort of stuck in their bedrooms doom scrolling at night you know not going to sleep being awake at four o'clock five o'clock in the morning and they're stuck there not for one or two years but for three or four the idea that they're going to walk straight from their bedroom into a full-time job is fatuous it just is but at the moment and

That's the offer that the government through policy is making for perfectly understandable reasons.

And that will work for part of the cohort.

But for another part, it will be about how do you edge them into the workplace?

Do they need a supported internship?

Does some sort of volunteering or community service or whatever, that's got to be part of the suite of offers that are available to young people.

And there's lots of that at a very localised level.

But honestly, none of it really has heft of scale.

So, you know, we need to look, we need to look, we need to explore exactly that terrain.

Well, I mean, we're going to, as I say, we're going to pronounce on that in the autumn.

But, you know, it's pretty obvious from what we've seen that there is a risk if we keep going down the same track.

You know, if you want more young people in employment, you've got to make sure the jobs are there for them.

To get the jobs there for them, you've got to make sure the employers are willing to take the risk.