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Culture home Young people with “normal” mental health conditions are being written off when they could be in employment, Labour’s worklessness tsar has said. Alan Milburn said the number of people in their twenties who are claiming benefits for anxiety and depression amounted to a “moral crisis”. Mr Milburn, who served as health secretary under Sir Tony Blair, is conducting a review into why one in eight young people are classified as NEETs – meaning they are not in education, employment or training. He said some 66,000 16 to 18-year-olds, who are legally required to be in full-time education, are classed as NEET and could be “stuck in their bedrooms gaming”. Sir Keir Starmer has said he wants to get to grips with the soaring cost of disability benefits but was forced to U-turn on planned cuts to personal independence payments (PIP) last year following a backbench rebellion.
Published: January 24, 2026 7:00 am
Source: The Telegraph — Read original