The Employment Gap in London, a new report from London Councils and youth unemployment charity Impetus, states a quarter of 16- to 24-year-olds in the capital are leaving school with fewer than five GCSEs.
Over the last decade, young disadvantaged Londoners have been more likely to be classed as Neet than anywhere else in the county, the report states, latest figures stand at 15 per cent compared with the national average of 14 per cent.
The capital also has the lowest take up of apprenticeships of any region; just four per cent of young Londoners started apprenticeships in 2017 compared with the national average of seven per cent.
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