It has been well-documented that the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) is considerable. According to the Office for National Statistics, between July and September 2013, 1.07 million young people aged 16 to 24 were NEET, and this age group has by far the highest rate of unemployment.
This is a complicated and heterogeneous group of young people with a whole range of characteristics, needs, attributes and ambitions. We know from the research that the majority of young people who are NEET do not face multiple or complex barriers to engagement (such as being a teenage mum or having social care involvement) and could be prevented from falling into this group if they were targeted with the right intervention early on. Yet re-engagement activities in many schools tend to focus on the students with more obvious “issues”.
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