Schools are ‘pipeline’ to joblessness for many people, says ex-Labour adviser

Ban social media and reform education to tackle scandal of young people not in work or study, says Peter Hyman Schools have become a “pipeline” to worklessness for a large cohort of young people in the UK, according to an influential former Labour adviser who has called for urgent action to help a “lost generation”. Peter Hyman, a former adviser to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer, told the Guardian the government should ban social media and enact radical education reform to tackle the “national scandal” of young people who are not in education, employment or training (Neet). Launching a major new report which is expected to influence government policy on Neets in the UK, Hyman called on ministers to overhaul a system that trapped the young in a “rejection economy” where they were being failed by the education system, employers and social media companies. The former headteacher said he was shocked at the sadness and despair experienced by school leavers who felt abandoned, ill-equipped and unable to enter an increasingly competitive jobs market. He added that close to one million were being wrongly classed as “snowflakes”, when in fact they were being “failed by go