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NEETs: Strategies for engaging pupils at risk

NEETS
Engaging with young people at risk of becoming NEET is a continuing challenge for schools, drawing on lessons from the Sporteducate scheme, Lekan Ojumu offers some insights

If pupils are struggling to engage with their education and are at a high risk of joining the 900,000-plus 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK who are currently NEET (not in education, employment or training), what tactics can be employed to grab their attention, change their attitudes and raise their aspirations for the future?

It is a challenge that nearly every teacher will be able to relate to and one that lies at the heart of Sporteducate. What’s different about the programme is that community sport groups deliver the supplementary educational activities, rather than the schools themselves. 

So for teachers looking for inspiration for their school’s Pupil Premium strategy or supplementary education activities, what lessons can they take away from our work about engaging young people at risk?

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