‘Out of work young people have been in their bedroom for five years!’

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]We spoke to 400 young needs across the country and I don't think I met a single snowflake. Uniquely they've had the sort of long shadow of COVID.

[00:00:08]>> I was going to ask about the generation >> and they and they've had the social media addictions. So one of the things we talk about is this sort of bedroom generation where that cocoon of the bedroom means if you've had a setback and you've maybe not got a job or be or lost a job, you're then in your bedroom.

[00:00:27]We said to a 23-year-old quite regularly, "Walk us through what you've been doing since you were 16." And they would say, "Well, I went to college for 3 months and then I dropped out and then I tried a little bit of work." And then we said, "And then what?" And they would say, "Nothing." And we would hear that they'd been in their bedroom literally for four, five, six years without the system.

[00:00:46]>> Yeah.

[00:00:47]>> Winkling them out.

[00:00:48]>> In your report, you're quite critical of the school system as part of the trouble. But I wasn't prepared for the vitriol and the hatred and the scarring for this group of people of school. The bullying that they had faced. The fact that they were in the ninth set out of nine in mass and labeled a by their classmates. The fact that they're put in isolation uh on their own in a in a sort of cupboard because for minor infringements of school rules. the fact that most importantly there are no pathways that are really championed at school other than university. So, they don't really know what their life's prospects are going to be.