The Latest Breaking News from NEETS

The Guardian view on youth unemployment: too few jobs in too many places

Editorial: Young people in Britain’s poorer towns have far fewer opportunities. Changing this will require targeted support – and industrial strategy

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18

‘Really helpful’: the AI bootcamps aimed at addressing UK youth unemployment

Pilot project in Preston comes with apprenticeship offer for Neets at end of three-week course

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13

Tesco and John Lewis among UK firms in pledge to create 100,000 jobs to tackle Neets crisis

The placements will be offered directly to young universal credit claimants in a programme dubbed ‘Opening Shift’

The Independent UK · Sep 7

An economic draft? Drive to get young Neets in the military divides opinion

Critics say high drop-out rate among under-18 army recruits make it a poor means of tackling youth unemployment

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5

Young people not in work or education: Latest numbers and trends

Nearly one in seven 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK are now classed as Neet.

Evening Standard · May 28

Independence only way to save young Scots from ‘lost generation’, SNP warn

INDEPENDENCE is "the only way Scotland can escape", the SNP have argued in response to a new report warning of a “lost generation” ...

The National (Scotland) · May 28

UK’s youth unemployment crisis costing UK £125bn a year, review estimates

The number of people aged 16 to 24 in the UK not in education, employment or training could increase to one in six young people by 2031, it said.

Evening Standard · May 28

More than one million young people not in work or education, says ONS

The number of people aged between 16 and 24 and not in employment, education or training, so-called Neets, rose to 1.01 million.

Evening Standard · May 28

More than one million young people not in work, education or training, new figures show as Neet crisis laid bare

ONS says number of Neets increased to a post-pandemic high of 1.01 million

The Independent UK · May 28

Number of young people out of work or training in UK could hit 1.25m by early 2030s

Urgent action needed to avoid ‘lost generation’, says report by former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn

The Guardian - UK · May 27