A report on the first year of the Activity Agreement Pilots has found they managed to get around half of participants to re-engage in education, training or employment. The scheme targeted 16- to 17-year-olds who had been out of work or education for at least 20 weeks, offering them payments of between £20 and £40 a week to study. Learning Agreement Pilots, which operate in a similar way but target young people who are in employment without training, were less successful. The researchers,...