Soaring mental health conditions locking unemployed young people out of the job market, warns new report

• New research from Learning and Work Institute and The Prince’s Trust, supported by HSBC UK, reveals the barriers facing unemployed, and rising numbers of economically inactive, young people across the UK
• Report highlights opportunity for almost half a million young people without a job to start work, if given the right support
• New analysis of labour market data shows the proportion of out of work young people reporting a mental health problem has increased from 11 per cent in 2011 to almost a third (30 per cent) in 2022
• Almost half (46 per cent) of young people without a job said they have additional mental health issues or caring responsibilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic which meant they were out of work