In the public and newspaper debate, issues quickly became sensationalised as "Neets on the streets", supported by statistical releases on high youth unemployment and the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training, which was last week revealed to be almost a million.
These figures are indeed very worrying, but relate to an issue quite separate to the civil unrest we witnessed. So, let's put the riots in context. The vast majority of young people did not take part. As the dust settles, the statistics on the number of children arrested according to newspaper reports range from 17 to 21 per cent. Some young people were certainly involved and were guilty of criminal acts and must face the legal consequences.
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