Sammy Gecsoyler

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Today in Focus · Where have all the first jobs gone? · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

It really impacts their confidence and their mental health.

And one thing that the report does mention is that 45% of NEETs who are 16 to 24 have a disability and mental health diagnoses make up a large proportion of that.

Everyone that I spoke to felt like they were one of at least 100 click and apply for a job and that they felt really hopeless.

Thomas, I spoke to, he said they just whittle away because he's just in his bed, scrolling on job stuff to no avail.

If you have...

got mental health needs particularly around depression anxiety when you do take a step out there and put yourself on the line apply for jobs and you're not getting anything positive back yeah that can be a real hit to their confidence and they sort of retreat another thing that the report mentions is people who have got mental health needs who do get going to the workplace can often find that those workplaces are hostile to their needs and aren't accommodating and that puts them off from getting into employment as well and i guess it must be a kind of chicken and egg thing that

So a lot of them cite the government's rise in minimum wage and national insurance contributions, particularly in hospitality, where a lot of young people do get their first jobs.

And they also cite rising business rates, rents and bills.

So costs have gone up across the board.

And I think it is important to say that a lot of these businesses, business owners, they aren't low tax enthusiasts.

Many understand that for a functioning society to run, fair taxation is needed.

They just feel that they're being unfairly asked to bear the brunt of it.

So I think it's too early to say for sure that AI is taking away jobs and completely transforming the job market.

But the first trickle of research that has come out does suggest that we are heading that way.

So a report last year found the number of new entry level jobs in the UK had dropped by almost a third since the launch of chat GPT in November 2022.

So I spoke to one business who had admitted that he previously had employed one to two apprentices a year, but in the past 18 months has adopted AI into his business and he hasn't employed any since.

On Sunday, the government announced that employers in Great Britain will be given £3,000 for every long-term unemployed person they hire.

They'll aim to get 60,000 people aged 18 to 24 into the workforce.

And I spoke to Howard Williamson, an expert on NEET.

He was a key part of Tony Blair's efforts to clamp down on youth unemployment almost 30 years ago.

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