ACEVO Articles

In the last two months, peers have spent 25 hours debating House of Lords reform. Today they will spend two and half hours debating youth unemployment, and only one backbench Conservative is taking part. That doesn't say much about the government's priorities,...

It was déjà vu all over again as I waited for my interview on Radio 5 Live about the unemployment figures on Wednesday. Nigel Lawson was leading for the government – saying that people had to have ‘patience’. The government minister was talking about schemes that have...

Southwark’s Labour council is bringing in a pioneering £3m Youth Fund – to help young people stay in education and get a job. Young people tell me the goal posts have moved. They have played by the rules – worked hard at school, got their grades. They expected – and...

Over the last two days two reports have highlighted the dramatic scale of the growing youth jobs crisis. Both the ACEVO Commission on Youth Unemployment launched by David Miliband, and the London Citizens inquiry into the Tottenham riots have demanded action on the...