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Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 January 2026

Debate

Youth Unemployment

Contribution

The noble Lord makes an enormously important point. It is sometimes at the point that young people finish school that they are lost to education or employment. That is why we will also put greater responsibilities on to schools to ensure the destinations of their pupils. We will deliver an automatic guarantee and automatic enrolment for young people into a college, and we will improve the risk of NEET indicators to identify earlier those young people who might end up not earning or learning.

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