The Prince’s Trust said the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for the period before social distancing measures were introduced in March paint a bleak picture for those aged 16 to 24.
The charity said the ONS data from December 2019 to February 2020 showed the unemployment rate for this age group was 11.8 per cent, four times higher than the rate for those aged 25 to 65 (2.9 per cent).
Citing research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), published earlier this month, the charity said the nationwide lockdown imposed to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak would hit younger workers the hardest as they were nearly two and a half times more likely to work in a sector that had closed down.
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