A million young people aren’t in a job or training. Britain has a problem | Richard Partington

<p>With the jobless rate now at 4.8%, ministers are urged to do more, especially for those with disabilities or health conditions</p><p>Almost a million young people are not in education, employment or training. Employers are freezing their hiring plans. Unemployment is at a four-year high. Not all is right in the UK jobs market, and the outlook is getting worse.</p><p>Typically it takes a full-blown <a href="https://x.com/Frencheconomics/status/1967930525038825871">recession</a> to spark the type of growth in unemployment that Britain is witnessing today. About 100,000 jobs have been <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/earningsandemploymentfrompayasyouearnrealtimeinformationuk/latest">lost from company payrolls</a> in the past year, and the official jobless rate has hit <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/employmentintheuk/october2025">4.8%</a>, up from 4.1% a year earlier. More than 9 million working-age adults are neither in employment nor looking for a job.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/02/young-people-job-training-jobless-britain-problem">Continue reading...</a>