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Government brings employers and educators together to prepare young people for work
Education Secretary Lucy Powell is hosting regional mayors, business leaders, headteachers and college principals.
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School fails to prepare dyslexic young people for work, BDA finds
70% said school had limited their education, training and career opportunities.
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NEET numbers increase by 30,000 over the past year, ONS finds
There were an estimated 981,000 young people aged 16 to 24 in the UK not in education, employment or training (NEET) between April and June 2026.
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Gi Group UK backs calls to ban ‘NEET’ term
Gi Group UK said the term could be making it harder for young people to find work and should be replaced with ‘LEET’ – ‘looking for education, employment or training’.
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More than one in three employers cut entry-level jobs for young people, research finds
36% of employers reduced entry-level jobs for people aged 16-24 in the past year, according to data from the Work Foundation at Lancaster University.
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National Grid launches £5m employability fund to support 5,000 young people
The Power Within Employability Fund will support up to 1,000 young people each year from the first half of 2027.
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Leep Group acquires E.Quality Training to boost support for NEETs
E.Quality Training will join the back to work division at Leep Group, which runs employability, skills and training programmes across the UK.
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Government targets “phantom NEETs” as 32,000 teenagers go untracked
The Department for Education said 32,100 so-called “phantom NEETs” are currently unaccounted for by local authorities, with significant variations between different parts of the country.
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CIPD calls for apprenticeship guarantee as youth unemployment rises
Responding to the publication of the Milburn Review interim report and latest ONS figures, the CIPD said greater investment and policy intervention were needed to support young people entering the labour market.
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Most young NEETs face health barriers, not lack of ambition, report finds
Neil Greenberg, president of the Society of Occupational Medicine, said employers felt more confident hiring and supporting young people with health conditions when they had access to work and health expertise.
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Confidence gap widens for NEETs in 2026, index finds
The McDonald’s Youth Confidence Index 2026 showed 44% of NEETs had a clear plan for their career, compared with 66% of other young people.
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One in seven not in work, training or education in their early 20s, UCL finds
At age 23, 14% reported being NEET, showing the problem was more common in the early 20s than in the wider age group of 16-24-year-olds.