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An extract from the August 2017 report on NEET.
Since 2012, the Government has reported a steady decline in the number of 16–24-year-olds who spend time not in education, employment or training (NEET).
This is good news, but it only tells half the story. There are still hundreds of thousands of young people spending very long periods of time NEET. Spending six months or more NEET has a long wage-scarring effect.
The Youth Jobs Index is designed to better understand this issue. It pools data points to understand:
- the characteristics of young people spending time NEET
- how many, and which, young people spend long amounts of time NEET
- how well are young people sustaining their exits from being NEET.
1. Progress on the numbers of long-term NEET has stalled
The headline NEET figures are falling. The last ONS publication, covering January to March 2017, reported that 800,000 (11.2%) young people were presently NEET – a 68,000 reduction on the same quarter in 2016.
This fall is welcome, ...
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