A nation of NEETS: Almost a million young people now out of work or education as thousands more join the 階級s

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 17:31 BST, 23 February 2012

958,000 young people 老年の between 16 and 24 are now not in education, 雇用 or training
The 人物／姿／数字 has 急に上がるd by more than 300,000 in the past 10 years
Unions and charities call for more support for what is becoming a 'lost 世代'

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Young people in Britain are struggling to make a 未来 for themselves as 政府人物／姿／数字s show almost a million have joined the 階級s of the NEETs.

One in six 16 to 24-year-olds is now part of the unenviable NEET tribe - short for not in education, 雇用 or training - によれば data published by the Department for Education today.

The depressing 統計（学） show that an extra 19,000 young people 老年の 16-24 were considered NEET in the final three months of last year, compared with the same period in 2010.

The number of NEETS in the UK has risen by more than 300,000 in the past 10 years

In total, 958,000 young people in that age 範囲 without education, training or a 職業 in the fourth ４半期/4分の1 of 2011.

For the same period in 2010, the 人物／姿／数字 was 939,000.

Compared to five years ago there are 意味ありげに more young people with no career prospects. In the three months to December 2006, some 810,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 were 分類するd as NEET. In that same ４半期/4分の1 last year, the 人物／姿／数字 had risen by 148,000.

The 最新の統計（学） also show that almost one in 10 (9.6%) 16 to 18-year-olds are NEET, along with nearly one in five (18.2%) 18 to 24-year-olds. A 政府広報担当者主張するd there were 対策 in place to 戦闘 the growing problem, 説 that ￡1 billion extra over the next three years was 存在投資するd in helping to get young people into education, training and 職業s.

'We are making sure that young people have the 技術s they need to get ready for work - creating the biggest 見習いの身分制度 programme our country has ever seen and 精密検査するing vocational education, so all 雇用者s can be 確信して about the rigour of our 資格s,' he said.

Almost a million young people in the UK are now 分類するd as NEET - not in education, 雇用 or training - によれば new 政府人物／姿／数字s

But school unions questioned the moves.

Russell Hobby, general 長官 of the 国家の協会 of 長，率いる Teachers (NAHT), said: 'Schools work hard to give young people the 技術s and abilities they need to 栄える in adult life but this won't get them work if there are too few 職業s around.

'Nor can schools easily 納得させる students of the value of 熟考する／考慮する and dedication if they see 世代s of talent wasted on the 施し物.

'Scrapping the 教育の維持／整備 Allowance that helped thousands continue their education has only made the 状況／情勢 worse.

'So every time we ask schools to up their game, we must 平等に look to society to 投資する in growth to create 職業s.'

Chris Keates, general 長官 of the NASUWT teachers' union, 追加するd that 態度s to work experience and vocational 資格s gave young people few choices.

'廃止するing work experience and denigrating vocational 資格s is making a bad 状況／情勢 worse,' he said.

'Today's 告示 is a mere sticking plaster from a 政府 seemingly 意図 on creating a lost 世代 of young people.

'手渡すing money to 雇用者s is no 代用品，人 for 基金ing young people 直接／まっすぐに to support them to continue in education and 伸び（る）資格s that 劇的な改善する their career prospects.'

Barnardo's 副長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Jane Stacey also called for more 財政上の support for young people who she said are now '軍隊d to skip meals just to afford the bus to college'.

She said: 'More 投資 is needed to 確実にする that students from poorer backgrounds can 現実に afford to stay on in education and training.'