B55: NEET Strategy: Raising the participation age, an opportunity for all?

In what has been described as the biggest reforms to education, training and skills in a generation, the Government has set out a forceful new strategy to tackle the problem of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET), in its policy Raising Expectations: staying in education and training post- 16. This bulletin will begin by exploring briefly what is meant by the term NEET and also what it means in with regards to disability, gender, and ethnicity.

Following on from this, the bulletin will consider the problem of young people not in education, employment, or training within the context of both the Leitch Review of Skills and The Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration.