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10pct Of Brit Teens Are Neither Employed Nor in Education
The Government has a target to reduce the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) to 7.6 percent by next year.
But the latest annual data from the end of 2008 puts the figure at 10.3 percent, caused by a large increase in the number of Neet 18-year-olds, the Department for Children Schools and families said.
The percentage of 16 to 18-year-olds who fall into the same bracket has remained higher in the past year than in the previous 12 months.
This means 261,000 young people had no job and were not studying. The figure rose to 1,082,000 among 16 to 24-year-olds.
The data shows that the number of Neet 16 to 24-year-olds in the third quarter of 2009 was higher than at any time since 2005, accounting for nearly a fifth (18 percent) of the age group.
"It is a damning indictment of the Government's failure to help young people during the recession," the Telegraph quoted David Willetts, the shadow skills secretary, as saying.
He added: "Despite all Gordon Brown's guarantees and pledges, the number of young people neither earning nor learning is increasing at a rate of more than 9,000 a week. Ministers must stop making empty gestures that do so little to help young people."
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