Lucy Powell has begun her tenure as Education Secretary by indicating she will tear up much of Lord Gove's education reforms. The last time that youth inactivity was that high was in 2013, before Lord Gove left the DfE and the results of his sweeping reforms had materialised. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementLord Gove inherited his own Neets crisis following the 2008 financial crash. It prompted Andy King, a former executive at the Office for Budget Responsibility, to describe the youth unemployment crisis as "self-inflicted". Among the changes that Lord Gove introduced was a tougher, more knowledge-based curriculum in England.