Tag: NEETs


  • Avoiding Choices

    Welfare Reform Proposals. Kemi Badenoch delivered a fairly surgical question at PMQs on Wednesday, questioning the new Chancellor’s own declared reasons for resigning as Defence Secretary just 13 weeks ago: “Is the Prime Minister unable, or is he just unwilling,to get that money by 2030?” The PM offered the classic deflective response, revealing far more…

  • Just NEET Good Enough

    981,000 16–24-year-olds were not in education, employment or training (“NEET”) in the UK in the three months from April to June this year according to the latest ONS figures released on 27th August, That is ONE IN EIGHT young people – nearly 1million beginning adult life without employment, education or training. This is not a new problem. Governments have worried…