🚨NEW CSJ REPORT🚨 One in three builders is now OVER the age of 50 and 130,000 are 65+👷 Meanwhile the number of young people in construction has collapsed by over 150,000 since 2008. We are in the midst of a workforce crisis that threatens Britain’s ability to build. 🧵👇

🙌Today is the first National Children with a Parent in Prison Day. CSJ Alliance charity & 2023 Award Winner @ChildrenHandS give a voice to children too often forgotten.🗣️ We’re proud to support their work in our research on Lost Boys, Pupil Premium & sentencing reform.

🛠️Our proposal to help young NEETs into work:

🗣️@MPIainDS “It has become clear that welfare is now in crisis. Before the pandemic, my welfare reforms brought workless households down to a record low and meant 100,000s more children grew up seeing a parent go out to work. The Government must urgently correct its course.”

WATCH: We have changed the conversation on how the welfare system is failing to support people with mental health conditions👇 @Keir_Starmer @EdwardJDavey @KemiBadenoch @ZiaYusufUK But now is the time for action.

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Almost 1M young people are NEET❗️ This will ripple through the generations: a young male NEET is 10x likelier to be inactive 20 years on👦👨 @RachelReevesMP should reform U22s benefits to fund a Future Workforce Credit - an effective tax cut to help employers hire young NEETs👇

Abandoning health benefit reform will cost £27bn by 2030📈 That's £700 per taxpayer. Meanwhile 1000s are being written off daily, their potential wasted. By better targeting MH benefits, Govt could save £7bn and radically expand NHS talking therapies and back to work support💬

🗞️IN @TheSun: CSJ analysis reveals that 5m people are now on out of work benefits with no requirement to work. The number of children in workless households has risen at the fastest rate on record. We are urging the Chancellor to announce life-changing reforms this Budget💼👇

The Chancellor will no doubt point to planning reform as a sign of her commitment to growth. But @csjthinktank analysis shows a construction workforce collapse threatens her ambitions. More here on how we get Britain working, building and growing again 👇 https://t.co/OBOzTdu0r1

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📺WATCH: Bob the Builder heads for retirement and he’s not alone. 👷Construction is ageing fast and shrinking faster: 🔴1 in 3 builders over 50 🔴150K fewer young workers post-2008 🔴500K fewer workers in total Can we build it? Not without a workforce❌ @Jonathan_Hinder

EVENT SIGN UP: In the midst of growing evidence of the harms of social media the CSJ will welcome an expert panel to discuss policy solutions.📱 📅Tuesday 2nd December, 9:00 - 10:30 AM Interested in attending? Fill in the form below to request a spot.🖊️ https://t.co/CEAuic1C1E

@JoshNicholson50 in his natural habitat: wearing a hard hat on a towering building site. If he'd followed his natural calling, we would only need a measly 160,999 construction workers...

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We're calling for: 🔴An effective tax cut to incentivise employers to hire young construction workers (📹👇) 🔴An overhaul of the education pipeline, with a clear technical option at GCSE and reformed post-16 system https://t.co/Rz2estEwLG

📺WATCH: The Govt have commissioned emergency planning measures to get London building again👷 But we won't meet London, or national, targets without a viable workforce. 🔴500K fewer workers since 2008 🔴1 in 3 builders over 50 🔴161K workers needed to meet housing targets 👇

⭐️Missed out on the #CSJAwards 2025? Watch everything that went down in our recap below👇 🎙️Awards Podcast 🎬The Short Films 💬The Speeches https://t.co/KhpR6f9kOj

So what should the Chancellor do? First, ease the pressure on businesses and help jobless youngsters by announcing a Future Workforce Credit – an effective tax cut worth 30 per cent of unemployed young person’s salary, funded by reducing health benefits for under-22s. This

🚨PRE-BUDGET BRIEFING🚨 🗞️Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, Policy Director @JoeShalam lays out how the Chancellor can make the savings to solve Britain’s biggest challenges in @Daily_Express 👇 Every now and then, politics throws up an irony so bitter it feels like we are being