Alan Milburn

It's pretty wide ranging.

So we're doing it in two phases, I suppose.

Phase one is trying to understand who they are, a million young people or thereabouts.

If they formed a city, that would be the third biggest in the UK.

So it's one in eight from 16 to 24 year olds.

So the scale of it is enormous.

who they are, what's going on, where it might go, and critically, why do we think it's happening?

So that's basically phase one.

And then phase two, we're looking at, okay, if those are the problems, what are the solutions?

So it's a two-phase thing.

And then in between times, there's a huge volume of interaction, obviously with young people.

I spent part of yesterday with a

Group of young people talking about their lives, what's going on, their aspirations, their hopes, their dreams.

A lot of visits to different parts of the country, particularly where young people who are neat are concentrated because they're in particular places.

Maybe we'll come back to that in a bit.

Helping a lot to employers, to local authorities, to mayors, to football clubs.

Honestly, I'll tell you what has been really uplifting for me.

A lot of it's really depressing, honestly.

Because it's really bad and it's getting worse.

But what's really uplifting is this is a visceral issue for the country.