Why we must give this ‘lost generation’ more of a chance

In the wake of this week’s UK Government report on the estimated one million young people aged 16-24 not in education or work in the UK, Graeme Farrow points to the 10th anniversary of a programme launched at the Wales Millennium Centre to address this trend.

Why we must give this ‘lost generation’ more of a chance. In the wake of this week’s UK Government report on the estimated one million young people aged 16-24 not in education or work in the UK, Graeme Farrow points to the 10th anniversary of a programme launched at the Wales Millennium Centre to address this trend. A MAJOR report issued yesterday from UK Government spoke of a ‘lost generation’ of young people who are out of work, education, or training in starkly rising numbers. Its release was timely; at Wales Millennium Centre this weekend, an experiment we started to rail against this trend celebrated its 10th anniversary. What started as a pop-up radio station in the middle of our foyer for a couple of weeks was a catalyst in reshaping our work with young people. Radio Platfform is now a fully-fledged radio station run entirely by yo...