Some 10.3 per cent of all 16- to 24-year-olds were NEET between October and December last year, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Department for Education show.
In the same period in 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, 11.8 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds were NEET compared with 11.3 per cent between October and December 2019.
Young people aged 16 to 18 saw the biggest drop with 4.7 per cent of this age group classed as NEET in the final quarter of last year compared with six per cent a year earlier and 7.5 per cent in 2019.
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