SLIDE 20
- The productivity loss to the U.K. economy is estimated at £10
million per day. Youth unemployment and inactivity costs the state about £20 million per week in Job-Seeker‟s Allowance (cost year 2004/05). The corresponding figure for Wales was £0.98 million per day.
- The estimated total cost of youth crime for Great Britain was in
excess of £1 billion (cost year 2004/05).
- Educational underachievement is estimated to cost the U.K.
economy £18 billion, as this may lead to youth unemployment or youth crime (cost year 2004/05). In Wales the figure is £227 million.
Youth Unemployment, Crime and Educational Underachievement
Slide by Prof Rhiannon Tudor- Edwards, Bangor University