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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ellie Crabbe

Number of young people not in work, education or training ‘a scandal’ – minister

It is “an absolute scandal” that the number of young people not in employment, education or training is close to a million, a minister has said.

The number of so-called “neets” aged 16 to 24 remains more than 940,000, latest Office for National Statistics figures showed on Thursday, which skills minister Baroness Jacqui Smith described as “a waste of young lives”.

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