Children and young people in care have told a fostering and adoption charity that such terms used by professionals are too complex or stigmatise them.
The research has informed a glossary called Language That Cares, produced by The Adolescent and Children's Trust (Tact).
Produced alongside workers at 14 local authorities and the children aged from 11 up to older care leavers they support, the glossary suggests alternative words that it hopes all professionals working with children and young people will begin to use.
Young people from Warwickshire told the charity social workers should say "unemployed" or "not in training or in education", rather than labelling young people as "Neet".
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