Britain has the third-highest rate of young people not in work or education among Europe's richest countries because of rising ill-health and a failing system of benefits and job support, a report has warned.

一份报告警告称，由于健康状况恶化以及福利和就业支持体系失灵，英国在欧洲富裕国家中，未就业或未接受教育的年轻人比例位居第三高。

The Resolution Foundation thinktank said the UK was facing a "crisis" in youth jobs amid a dramatic rise in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds who are not in education, employment or training (Neets) to almost 1 million — the highest level in more than a decade.

智库“决议基金会”（Resolution Foundation）表示，随着 16 至 24 岁既不在接受教育、也未就业或培训（即“尼特族”，Neets）的人数激增至接近 100 万——创下十多年来新高——英国正面临一场青年就业“危机”。

It said a "quartet of causes" had led the UK to lose ground against many of its international peers, led by a rise in ill-health among young people, weak vocational education, a hands-off benefits system and a deteriorating jobs market.

报告指出，一组“由四个因素构成的原因”导致英国在与许多国际同类国家的竞争中逐渐落后，这些因素包括：年轻人健康状况恶化、职业教育薄弱、福利体系过于放任，以及就业市场持续恶化。

Only Italy and Lithuania had a higher rate out of 22 EU members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) analysed in the report. Young people in Britain were more likely to be Neet than in comparable rich economies, with a rate higher than that of Germany and Denmark, and more than three times the rate in the Netherlands.

在报告分析的经合组织（OECD）22 个欧盟成员国中，只有意大利和立陶宛的比例高于英国。英国年轻人成为“尼特族”的可能性高于其他类似的富裕经济体，其比例高于德国和丹麦，并且是荷兰的三倍以上。

The thinktank said the remaining increase was explained by rising ill-health, amid a broader increase in young people reporting health conditions — primarily led by a rise in issues with mental health.

该智库表示，其余增长可归因于健康状况的恶化，同时越来越多的年轻人报告存在健康问题，其中主要是心理健康问题的上升。

Lindsay Judge, the research director at the Resolution Foundation, said the benefits system in Britain "both expects and provides too little to its claimants", and required urgent government action to address.

决议基金会研究主任林赛·贾奇（Lindsay Judge）表示，英国的福利体系“对申领者的要求和提供的支持都过低”，亟需政府采取紧急行动加以解决。

"Fixing Britain's Neet crisis starts with investment in youth mental health support and vocational education, and a serious rethink of how young people interact with the benefit system. That is how countries like the Netherlands keep their Neet rate a third of ours, " she said.

她表示：“解决英国的尼特危机，应从加大对青年心理健康支持和职业教育的投资开始，同时需要认真反思年轻人与福利体系之间的互动方式。正是这样，像荷兰这样的国家才能将其尼特比例控制在我们的三分之一。”