Burnham pledges ‘big changes’ to the way the welfare system works to tackle Neets crisis – UK politics live

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Prime minister’s comments come as children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza highlights ‘staggering’ inequalities in young people’s treatment across UK Good morning.

Children and young people are at the top of the agenda today, with the publication of a hard-hitting report from Dame Rachel de Souza , the children’s commissioner for England, and a Times article by Andy Burnham .

They are focusing on slightly different cohorts – Burnham is writing about young people who leave school and enter the benefits system, while the de Souza reports covers the experiences of young children in multiple aspects of their lives – but their overall message is the same: the younger generation is being let down.

De Souza has studied more than 160 datasets to examine how what happens to children as they grow up varies across England and she says the varia