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Guardian:
Poorer children 'twice as likely to be out of work in later life'

24 April 2019

Dr Stefan Speckesser from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, which conducted the analysis, said the study showed that some local areas were more successfully tackling the negative effects of disadvantage, which are unrelated to education success, on young people’s school-to-work transitions. "From this point of view, the analysis of large data offers a great potential to see where local actors can achieve better outcomes and to learn from good practice," he said.

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