According to a report published by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), young people in the UK need more help getting the vital experience needed to find work, or risk falling behind their international counterparts.
Calling on business, education and government to do more to give young people opportunities to ‘earn and learn’, the report Youth employment in an international context, notes that youth unemployment in the UK is falling, but claims there is still more work to be done to give young people the best chance of getting into the workplace.
The report also states that the number of unemployed 16-24s in the UK has steadily fallen in recent years, but that the UK’s youth unemployment rate is more than three times higher than the adult rate.
This ratio is higher than most other European countries, and has also been increasing for the last 25 years – showing there is still much to be done to tackle the issue of youth unemployment in the UK. View the report
