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  • Three in five young people who are neither learning nor working have never had a paid job, new analysis finds

    New research on the UK’s near one million young people aged 16 to 24 who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) reveals three in five (58%) have never had a paid job.  
  • Research and Reports 04 04 2025

    Youth Opportunity Index 2025

    Our Youth Opportunity Index 2025 gives a detailed portrait of the opportunities and challenges for every young person broken down by local education authority. It has revealed the intra-regional differences in England as well as regional ones.
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  • Research and Reports 04 04 2025

    Young people who are not in education, employment, or training – what does the data tell us?

    This briefing provides an overview of the scale of how many NEET young people there are in the UK, what the characteristics of NEET young people are, and the differences in opportunity between different areas of England.
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  • Making a Youth Guarantee work

    L&W's chief executive Stephen Evans argues that the Government's planned Youth Guarantee should build over time to include all 16–24-year-olds and invest in new forms of support.
  • Projects 20 11 2024

    A Youth Guarantee for England

    Following the Government’s commitment to introducing a Youth Guarantee in England, something we first called for five years ago, L&W is launching a new project.
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  • Research and Reports 05 08 2024

    Evaluation of Youth Employment Service North East

    L&W carried out an independent evaluation of Youth Employment Service North East on behalf of Youth Futures Foundation.
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  • Why 2024 should be a year for employer investment in training

    Naomi Clayton, deputy director of Learning and Work Institute, explains why investment in training and workforce development can help businesses of all sizes stand out from the crowd.
  • Research and Reports 27 09 2023

    The Young Person's Guarantee

    This report from the Youth Employment Group, which L&W co-chair, proposes a new Youth Guarantee to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET).
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  • Tackling youth unemployment could generate £69bn for UK economy

    According to new calculations from the Youth Employment Group (YEG), reducing the number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) to the same levels as the Netherlands could generate £69 billion in GDP.

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