Editorial: Let's not forget the older young people

The report concentrates on the needs of 16- to 25-year-olds who are disadvantaged but often no longer considered "young" by policymakers and service providers, even though they still need significant support (see Analysis, p9). At 19, a young person could be a teenage parent, unemployed or have mental health issues, but they may miss out on appropriate services.

The Social Exclusion Unit has long been associated with high-quality work based on thorough research, hard evidence and intelligent analysis that cuts across the silos of different government departments, previously best known in our sector through 2000's influential PAT 12 Report on youth provision. In Transitions, it makes 27 recommendations that have been signed up to by a range of government departments (see p2).