{"id":86649,"date":"2026-02-26T22:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/uk-parents-fear-young-will-be-worse-off-for-first-time-in-a-century-ex-minister-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:00:18","slug":"uk-parents-fear-young-will-be-worse-off-for-first-time-in-a-century-ex-minister-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/uk-parents-fear-young-will-be-worse-off-for-first-time-in-a-century-ex-minister-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"UK parents fear young will be worse off for first time in a century, ex-minister warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8f800b8461ad337535639a73b3b364cf66e18567\/2183_1075_5831_4664\/master\/5831.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=40994ac7f74eb60bdc4c82ccb2cd3566\" alt=\"UK parents fear young will be worse off for first time in a century, ex-minister warns\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">UK parents fear young will be worse off for first time in a century, ex-minister warns<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Alan Milburn says people feel \u2018social contract is being broken\u2019 as number of Neets climbs to 957,000The number of young people in the UK not working or in education has risen closer to a million, figures show, as a government adviser warned that for the first time in a century parents do not think their children will have a better life than them.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the number of people aged 16 to 24 who were not in education, employment or training (Neet) rose to 957,000 in the final three months of last year, equating to 12.8% of this age group. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/26\/rise-in-neets-young-people-not-in-work-education-uk-ons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts UK parents fear young will be worse off for first time in a century, ex-minister warns Alan Milburn says people feel \u2018social contract is being broken\u2019 as number of Neets climbs to 957,000The number of young people in the UK not working or in education has risen closer to a million, figures show, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":86650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}