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- Barnardo’s study of 1,000 16-25-year-olds in England found 56% turned down jobs or training because of unaffordable costs.
- Among those, 28% said they had declined or left opportunities for cost reasons more than once.
- Alan Milburn, commissioned by former PM Sir Keir Starmer, asked 100 major companies to create youth job roles.
- Royal Mail, Octopus Energy, Greene King and Lloyds Bank joined the review’s First Chance scheme.