Labour Market Briefing: April 2025

Our analysis of the latest labour market statistics from ONS, released on 4 April 2025.

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L&W's chief executive Stephen Evans and chief economist Dr Helen Gray respond to the latest labour market data from ONS.

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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.

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.