The government needs to come up with a less dehumanising term than the ugly acronym “NEETs” to describe a million of our fellow citizens, aged between 18 and 24, who are not in education, employment or training. It is rather symptomatic of the neglect shown towards what is being referred to, equally dismally, as a “lost generation”.
A more accurate term might simply be “young people”, because that is what they are – and the vast majority of those who have found themselves falling behind are in that situation through no fault of their own.
