Recent reports highlight the growing challenges young people face when attempting to enter the workforce, particularly in the UK. A combination of rising economic inactivity, post-pandemic mental health struggles, and a lack of entry-level positions has created a difficult job market for those aged 16 to 24. Many employers are demanding prior work experience for introductory roles, leaving young jobseekers stuck in a cycle of being unable to gain the very experience required to secure employment.
- Economic inactivity and unemployment rates among individuals aged 16 to 24 have seen a notable increase.
- The long-term disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic have negatively impacted education, social development, and youth mental health.
- Many entry-level job listings now require previous experience, creating a significant barrier for first-time job seekers.
- There is an ongoing mismatch between the skills taught in traditional education and those demanded by modern employers.
- Experts emphasize the need for expanded apprenticeship programs, improved career guidance, and targeted support systems to help young people secure employment.
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Cause the government lets in millions of foreigners who steal the jobs duh.
dont watch msm legacy media. let them die on their own account
My three daughters work at the BBC, as do myself and my wife.
The BBC talking nonsense again!
If we can afford to pay tens of billions to house illegal immigrants then we can we can afford to create jobs for our young people.
Because there is a replacement agenda in place and moronic policies that favour illegal migrants instead of British citizens
Because they are addicted to video games and their parents are weak😂 a lot of these kids have mental health issues due to this very thing. Some dont socialise enough and thats another issue that leads to mental health issues and are affraid or too lazy to get a job.
Duh -because there are millions of foreigners in taking the British peoples jobs ….maybe ?
Rachel Reeves' changes the minimum wage & NI, snowflake generation with fragile mental health, and mass immigration are the reasons. Don't need a 1/2 hour program to figure it out.
Crazy idea, tax employers based on their market cap and give them a discount based on how many people in the UK they employ. I bet these big tech companies make a fortune from the UK and have next to no employees here.
Right because billionaires aren't trying to simultaneous cut workers, use AI and cut cost whilst paying the least they possibly can, this is a 3rd world country and has been for a long time.
Worst thing is rural areas are so entitled thinking we are still a "world power" they don't realise there is actually no work left for them to do? Farming? exported to Portugal and spain. Auto-motive? China literally outpaced even the front runners like Germany and Japan. Textiles and furniture? No one is paid a living wage here to make them, lumber is insanely expensive now even for a DIY project, competing against countries like India and Bangladesh that churn out solid material for actual pennies per 100 is insane. "Banking"?
Yeah I guess the small circle in central London is still dragging up the county's average wage by managing the wealth of other Oligarchs and running circles around the Tax system that screws over regular people.
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Woke ideology is 1 cause the other is that we have deindustrialised so much that everything is imported, no jobs if no industry, oh and tax is too high.
What is English level to catch up 90% context in this podcast? I'm late B2, totally lost at some points.
Stupid question its so obvious and should have been addressd 40 years sgo and NOW THEY TALK. GO HOME RALKING HEADS
27 migrants from outside of europe are being hired for every 1 Brit, it's called cheap labour!
Why UK got so many brownies
When a work place is 80% Indians, racist against anyone who is not Indian, employing only Indians, how you expect British young people to find jobs! ?How? How To find jobs when the jobs advertised in India, not United Kingdom?
because youve flooded the country with doctors and engineers (that also send their money out of the country) for cheap labour in a shrinking job market?
Because we are importing cheap labour from France to keep the wages down . Not hard it capitalism 101 if you flood the market with cheap labour
Because boomers crushed our economy
Because they’ve realised that the so called dream is exactly that a dream of being rich , some of them have gone off the idea and with good reason it’s a complete and utter lie you can keep your dream 😂😂😂
When the minds are filled with a culture of deprivation. When the ruin of others achievement becomes an expression of strength, power and greatness of some, the earthly destiny of life becomes a tragedy for some.
27 foreign people have a job for each 1 british person unemployed.
Defundthebbc
doesn't everyone everywhere in every country apply to 100s of jobs?
WHY is the emphasis ONLY on the young? Older people are also finding it impossible to get jobs now, and the age discrimination legislation is unfit for purpose. Companies will NEVER admit that they are denying you a job due to your age, so there's absolutely no recourse for someone in their 50's or 60's!
It definitely has nothing to do with bringing in infinite migrants while labelling white working class people as Nazis and throwing them under a bus at every opportunity.
As of February there were 739000 unemployed 16 to 24 year old in the UK. Around 15% of them have been unemployed for over 12 months. The record for youth unemployment was set between 2008 and 2015, when it was way down the political agenda, not 2026. We should all be careful of when talking about projected figures. Milburn may be flying a kite for the best possible motives…but we should be sceptical and question where these agendas come from.
The job centre has nothing to do with work. It's a benefits office and if you end up there, the chances are your going to struggle in the jobs market your whole life.
You can guarantee there's one reason that the BBC won't mention
Why employ inexperienced young People with no responsibilities, who might decide not to show up, when it costs virtually the same to employ an adult with some experience, responsibilities, who know they need the Job! Such is the System that the UK Government has created!
Young people can't get jobs, because the Government insists on flooding the UK with millions of immigrants year after year who are experienced and take the jobs.
Many employers, for their own various reasons, prefer to employ immigrants.
Young people already here are outcompeted, and their needs ignored.
But you won't hear the Government admit mass-immigration for decades is the root of the problem. If they bring the whole world here, there won't be enough homes and there won't be enough jobs.
The people who were here first are being treated unfairly.
Since the UK is bankrupt, with huge bills to be paid via the tax system, and huge amounts of benefits and freebies being paid out to the undeserving, the future for young people is very bleak. They should consider moving abroad if they want a bright future, most of them aren't going to find it in the UK. There isn't a fair deal to be had by young people in the UK anymore. If they work, they can't even get a decent inflation-linked tax income allowance.
Many reasons, they're are some great young people!
However I have found that far too many University leavers are now incredible entitled and lazy.
We need to shut 50%of the crappy Universities and out that money back into the trades!
Many young people leave the country to get jobs in far East and ME and other parts of the world : you can say that nearly a half of all graduates migrate to save money to buy their first house !
What is wrong in that?
They are not stupid but they are smart that is the best way to avoid the long term trap in mortgage:
You can’t force all young people to stay in this country to make a living ,
Compare working here in the UK and in ME ?
See the difference between working conditions here and over there ?
A good teacher here in the UK will get £24k
What is left after tax ?
What is left after all other bills ?
How can they buy any house in this country with that salary?
They don’t want be fooled by this system that was designed for this country before 50 years ago?
Civil servants, policy makers and politicians in this country still live in Stone Age!!!
They don’t move with time and age ?
Its is a backward thinking of these politicians and policy makers force young people to migrate in thousands?
Wait and see in five years time to know how many young people may have migrated?
👏👏🟢 Drug Policy Reform: Reality and the Demand of the Time
Around the world, a new discussion on drug policy is emerging. In countries such as the United States, Canada, and many parts of Europe, cannabis has been legalised in a regulated manner. At the same time, alcohol has long been controlled under legal and state-managed systems. This raises an important question: Can Bangladesh gradually move towards a similar modern and regulated approach?
🌍 What Does Global Reality Say?
Many developed nations have realised that complete prohibition alone cannot fully eliminate drug use. Instead, controlled legalisation can reduce black markets, increase government tax revenue, and make quality control easier. Today, cannabis is treated in many countries as a “controlled substance,” particularly for medical and limited recreational purposes.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh’s Reality and the Need for Reform
Bangladesh is currently facing a serious drug crisis. Yaba, phensedyl, and heroin are destroying the future of many young people. In this situation, strict crackdowns alone may not be enough. The time has come for new thinking:
👉 A regulated and science-based drug policy
👉 Gradual discussion on controlled cannabis legalisation
👉 A more transparent and modern regulatory system for alcohol
⚖️ Why Is Reform Necessary?
To reduce black-market activities, ease pressure on law enforcement, increase state revenue, and most importantly — establish effective control and monitoring.
🧠 Reality Over Misconceptions
Drug policy is not only about saying “no”; it is about understanding reality and creating systems of control. If a nation can modernise in technology, economy, and governance, it can also move towards modern policy reforms.
🔴 Final Thought
The time has come for Bangladesh to think with realism rather than emotion. Illegal cross-border trafficking and underground markets continue to drain huge amounts of money from the economy. With proper regulation, tourism opportunities and export potential could contribute to foreign currency earnings.
Controlled legalisation + strict monitoring + strong education and public awareness — these three together could help create a safer and more effective drug policy.
🌿 “Not prohibition, but regulation may become the solution of the future.”
a very chummy conversation on the issue of youth unemployment in the first half of this. i noticed no use of the word "corruption" however
words like rot & corrosion are often used to describe the process of corruption. i also think the word concertina is helpful to understanding corruption as a process
the thing about elite corruption is that it lifts up people first & foremost based on their willingness & ability to protect the corruption. likewise, the people who've been lifted up first & foremost based on their willingness & ability to protect the corruption themselves lift up people first & foremost based on their willingness & ability to protect the corruption. it's obvious when you think about it
when it's the protection of corruption, rather than talent, hard work or integrity, that is the governing philosophy of employment, you're going to end up where the uk is
the problem with the generations who have come before the young people of today, who have been lifted on the basis of their willingness & ability to protect the corruption, is that they haven't yet been paid-out to the extent they were led to believe they would be on the basis of their willingness & ability to protect the corruption. because you've completely detached reward from talent, hard work & integrity vast numbers of older people are entitled to get paid out on their basis of their proximity to power alone & they know it. they've spent their whole lives "climbing the greasy pole," understanding when to look the other way & entrench corruption, fixing themselves to margarat thatcher's eternal rear-end, & doing the bare minimum beyond that, because that's what they were told would lead to the victory of themselves, their noble lords & masters, & the country. lo & behold, eight-thousand-million people around the world think they themselves shouldn't buy into that
you've got to frame this in terms of the inherent inability of the british aristocracy to compete in good faith – because that in itself is unchanging
in the age of the internet, young people can figure out how to hone their talents through hard work & integrity. the problem is that in the uk the rewards are promised & allegedly bestowed by a system that isn't interested in the vast majority of them doing that
My word a day off for anxiety that's ridiculous
The biggest problem is NHS the reason this country is going down into dust is because young ones from university with debt whos generations built this country with tax and love and commitment to give to their next generation
Have degrees of nursing, pharmacy, psychologist, doctor, brick laying, plumbing,
Work at tesco to make ends meet and live with parents so can save for a car
While NHS imports and pays multiple thousands for sponsoring and 3 months of stay free in their acconodation, uniforms and pension co tribution, travel schemes for indian, bangladesh, pakistani, pbillipines, EU spc from latvia, lithuania, poland, portugal and bulgaria
Even for first year residence brits have to compete with indian snd pakistani nationals for limited options its diagusting then they call their families and spuses and kids and its not 1 peraon its 1 foreign person brings 3 others and now we have 3 unemployed brits and employers prefer them over brits
Opourtunities for brits is rare and it shouldnt be like that
No wonder why brits are unemployed and nhs is in debt no nation on this globe discruminates its own citizens the govt of uK is appearing to be obligated to serve foreigners
But these leaders want youth to fight russians for the nation sake and show love for the country. While they show their legions to foreigners
In a lot of jobs you're expected to have job experience. But if you can't get the jobs in the first place you can't get the experience.
Uuuh, Because there aren’t any jobs, just got to walk down a Town high street to see that.
Or maybe be these people in the South commenting why unemployment is so high should may be venture North of London ( There is a whole country), plus many Northern Towns and Cities have been ignored and had their employment opportunities reduced for Years.
London is Not the UK it is only one city.
Why? Because for decades people in Britain have been discouraged from working, encouraged to claim benefits, find reasons why they can't do things, have 'indications' of conditions on which they can not have to do things from get up in the morning to being asked to do things ('pressurized'). Private Mental & Physical Health companies have sprung up drawing money from the NHS to pay private consultants £1k+ a day and diagnose varying degrees of 'conditions' why people can't do things. Strangely enough, migrants from real poverty and war zones have no such needs and focus on opportunity and providing for loved ones.
i keep hearing that Britain needs so many workers, thereby necessitating mass migration; if it's true that there is such a worker shortage, why can't British youngsters find jobs?
Look in the 1980s we had Groundwork, BTCV and YOP for young people, social, environment, skills. Why not bring it back for Young people 18-25, yo where if they sign up they get Benefits. If not, they lose Benefits. Young people have not paid any or sufficient National Insurance.
Also now, there are drone production via 3 D printing, coding. Additionally Construction skilling jobs and training for benefits or training.
Or National Service in military and non military / conservational /environmental roles that are paid for 2 years.
If you asked a Young British job whether they woukd take up an agricultural or pizza delivery role or Benefits, it would be Benefits. This needs changing.
Migrants would do the bike pizza delivery or agricultural crop picking.