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Peter Matejic @statspeter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Great thread from @rachelcasey.bsky.social. One of the key messages is don't forget the role of childhood poverty in any discussion of what's needed to reduce the number of NEETs.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

6/ So what’s needed? ✅ Tackling child poverty early ✅ Stronger financial security ✅ Joined-up support ✅ Access to stable work Reform must match the scale of the challenge. 📣 More soon from @jrf-uk.bsky.social

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

5/ 🙅 We must avoid false trade-offs This isn’t income support vs employment support. Get that wrong, and outcomes worsen - not improve.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

4/ Too often we focus on outcomes, not pathways. No one becomes NEET in isolation - Years of hardship shape the trajectory.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

3/ 📈 Our NEW analysis shows: Growing up in poverty more than TRIPLES the risk of being out of earning or learning. This starts long before labour market entry.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🧱2/ If the system is to work, it needs strong foundations. Without financial security, too many young people are held back from the start.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🧵 1/ The Milburn Review is right to sound the alarm 🚨 Rising numbers of young people out of work or education should concern all of us. This reflects deep, structural challenges - not a short-term blip.

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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"Trusted with money and no conditions attached, the young people in our trial made choices that reduced their demand on crisis services across the board." ✍️ Writing for @bigissue.com, @michael-sanders.bsky.social argues our cash transfers study challenges traditional assumptions about welfare

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How UK could save money by giving out cash – not cutting benefits

Benefit cuts and sanctions are often part of government reforms to save money – but studies show free cash handouts could be more effective.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Analysis in our latest #UKPoverty2026 report finds that very deep poverty - meaning annual household incomes fail to cover the cost of food, energy bills and clothing - is deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The same old tired framing of those deserving/undeserving. Brushing off anxiety and depression as “normal” is a cheap shot. Bevan also said: “the capacity for emotional concern for individual life is the most significant quality of a civilised human being.” www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Anxious young Britons ‘risk becoming lost generation on benefits’

Alan Milburn, Starmer’s work tsar, says successive governments have made the ‘wrong choice’ by investing in older generations

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Ellie Harwood @ellieharwood.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A good read on plans to cut UC health entitlement and increase conditionality for ill and disabled young people on low incomes. Personally, I think this will create additional barriers for many disabled young people. The harm done by deeper poverty can't be offset by a supportive work coach.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In @jrf-uk.bsky.social's new policy briefing, we outline 4 key policy principles to help young people furthest from the labour market into good-quality, sustained employment. Read more (3/3)⬇️ www.jrf.org.uk/work/unlocki...

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Unlocking the potential of young people furthest from the labour market

This report gives 4 key policy principles to help young people furthest from the labour market into good-quality, sustained employment.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

✅Young people with health conditions should be offered more support to move into work or learning. ❌Doing so does not have to be contingent on cutting their benefits or imposing punitive conditionality (2/3)

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The Government’s Get Britain Working white paper and Pathways to Work green paper present competing visions for supporting young people furthest from the labour market into employment. Read more (1/3)⬇️

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

7/ Good to see the green paper recognise some of the diverse challenges that young people face and its intention to tailor the Youth Guarantee offer to the individual's needs and aspirations. But this will be undermined by the changes set out in the green paper.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

6/The young people we spoke to as part of developing this work are experiencing high levels of hardship and multiple unmet need, including health conditions. Social security is a vital lifeline, albeit an extremely inadequate one. And, no, they can’t live on £70 a week bsky.app/profile/bbcn...

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

5/ In April @jrf-uk.bsky.social will publish its work on how to unlock the potential of young people furthest from the labour market. But it's not too much of a spoiler to say that the changes outlined in the green paper will make it a harder task, and it's already pretty damn hard.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

4/These changes combined will significantly impact young people who already experience unacceptably high levels of hardship. Cutting health-related UC will make it harder for them to move towards work and undermine the intention behind the Youth Guarantee. See bsky.app/profile/iain...

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

3/It also plans to raise the age for claiming PIP from 16 to 18, which will have some winners and losers but does not say who they are. However, it’s made clear that the aim of the would be to reduce expenditure.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

2/The green paper proposes delaying access to the health element of Universal Credit until age 22 to remove any “potential disincentive to work” and redirect those resources into an expanded Youth Guarantee.

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Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Yesterday, the Government’s launched the #PathwaystoWork green paper. It plans to create a “clearer youth phase” by changing benefit rules for young people to support its new Youth Guarantee. Key takeaways 🧵1/7

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