Youth unemployment costs the UK 20m in jobseeker's allowance and a further 70m in lost productivity every week; youth crime costs the country 1bn a year (incurred in anticipation of crime through security expenditure and insurance, as a consequence of crime through damaged property and in responding to crime through tackling criminals); while depression caused by underachievement in school costs the NHS up to 28m a year.
But as the report's authors acknowledge, these figures do not account for less tangible, longer-term costs such as the low self- esteem suffered from a spell of unemployment or the impact of custody on a young person's future employment prospects.
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