A long-awaited review into youth inactivity warns that without urgent action the number of young people in Britain who are NEET – not in education, employment, or training – will rise from 1 in 8 to 1 in 6 young people within five years, representing 1.25 million young lives. At the launch of the interim report, Alan Milburn, the former Labour health secretary, is expected to say: ““Six in ten have never had a job. Twenty years ago, that figure was closer to four in ten.