But despite such progress, the future for many young people is uncertain. Under 25s make up around 60 per cent of the drop in employment, they are disproportionately likely to have been furloughed, and more than one in eight young men are neither earning or learning - the most in almost a decade.
Youth unemployment is a big challenge, but last week’s budget invested in machinery, rather than people. Essential skills that young people need to succeed in the workplace are overlooked. Whether you call them soft skills, people skills, behaviours - they matter.
We know that even before the Covid crisis, hundreds of thousands of young people were neither earning nor learning. At Impetus, our Youth Jobs Gap research shed some light on this group.
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