The Establishing the Employment Gap report finds that 26 per cent of disadvantaged young people eligible for free schools meals were Neet after leaving school, compared with 13 per cent of those who were not eligible.
Qualifications are a key determiner of life chances, but the study found that even if these are the same, those who are disadvantaged are twice as likely to end up Neet than those from higher socioeconomic backgrounds.
The report claims that while previous studies have found a similar gap, the new analysis uncovers an additional 78,000 additional disadvantaged young people aged between 18 and 24 ending up Neet.
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