Pat McFadden: “I think we owe people more than that”

In the Netherlands, inactivity is a last resort, yet we all too often see young people signed off and written off, without engagement or support.

We'll have proposals, legislation, if necessary, to take those forward," he said.

We are trying to get the system to ask: ‘How do we help you live your fullest life? How do we maximise your opportunities?’

There is a design flaw in our credit system, which was built into Universal Credit on the way it was designed, which is that it is too easy for people to be signed off and written off with them receiving no help, no support, and no…