Record numbers of young people are not in employment, education or training. Businesses are quick to whinge about the government, the unions and the minimum wage – but it’s time they stepped up, writes Chris Blackhurst T he Alan Milburn report makes for shocking reading. On page after page, he lays bare society’s neglect over decades of the young, how institutions in every sector and at all levels have let them down. Such is the detail in his findings and his conclusions that he is quite right