Alan Milburn - Cut Welfare To Offer More Support.

ChrisR777
ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,171 Championing
in Current affairs
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/18/cut-benefits-fund-employment-support-young-people-neet-review-author-alan-milburn

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  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 6,234 Scope online community team

    Thank you for sharing this @ChrisR777, I wonder what sort of support they are thinking about putting in place. What do you think would be best?

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,456 Championing
    edited October 19

    I'd like to see autism NOT lumped in with ADHD, anxiety, depression or other 'minor' MH conditions!

    Autism is not minor and it cannot be cured.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,171 Championing
    edited October 19
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1154452#Comment_1154452

    We have heard it all before, from multiple governments, so it doesn't bode well that it will be different this time.

    It has been said before, that any 'support' ends up costing more than just issuing money to the claimant, and the only beneficiaries are the likes of G4S.

    As for my own opinion, which carries no weight, I would like to see real efforts made to help the ballooning ADHD numbers currently applying, or having recently been granted PIP. The young ones most of all.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,456 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1154509#Comment_1154509

    YOP, YTS, YT, Educational Maintenance Allowance?

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,171 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1154511#Comment_1154511

    I did a bit of YTS myself, and on all three occasions, I was used as a skivvy for a few months them let go. This time has to be completely different, or it will just be yet another sticking plaster.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,456 Championing
    edited October 19
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1154514#Comment_1154514

    They want to throw wads of cash to employers to take on apprentices paid a pittance while employers blame the National Minimum Wage for pricing out labour 🤪

  • bookrabbit
    bookrabbit Community Member Posts: 300 Pioneering

    Young people do need more help. And at least they are acknowledging that it needs to be paid for and won't be cheap.

    But I am still skeptical 🤨

  • egiste2r
    egiste2r Posts: 287 Connected

    Stupid deputies and officials always want to spend less money on the people and make them work more. I'll give it Free advice to them - forget about today's NEET, spend as much money as you need on health care, and not a pitiful penny as now, and in 10 years there will be good results, obvious to everyone.

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