A couple of minutes later, the Prime Minister pointed out that around a third of looked-after children end up as NEETs - not in employment, education or training.
Is being NEET different from being unemployed? Or is it just that looked-after children don't count?
A neuroscientist has decided that teenagers take less account of people's feelings than adults do. Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, of University College London, asked teenagers and adults what they would do in a given situation, and scanned their brains while they thought.
The finding was that teenagers under-use the medial prefrontal cortex. That, says the doc, implies that they are less likely to think about how they and other people will feel as a result of their intended action.
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