Dr Stefan Speckesser, Dr Matthew Bursnall and Jamie Moore share the findings of a new report. A new NIESR and Impetus report on young people Not In Education, Employment and Training (NEET) reveals that young people with a disadvantaged family background [1] are 50% more likely to be NEET than better off peers irrespective of their education outcome. This finding holds for all age groups and also has not changed over time. For the first time, our data allows us to create reliable NEET statistics for the 18-24 year-olds in local areas, which show that local employment gaps between disadvantaged young people and others differ greatly and are unrelated to overall NEET rates.

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25 April 2019

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CVER Blog

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http://cver-blog.blogspot.com/2019/04/family-matters-how-early-disadvantage.html

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