The grant will go towards a three-year programme, Widening Participation and Improving Practice, under the Getting Connected curriculum. It is run in partnership with the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education and helps young people join in community activities.
The Department for Education and Skills says 181,000 16- to 18-year-olds in England are NEET. The Conservatives claim 1.1 million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK are in this category.
Connexions has a target, to be reached by November, of reducing by a tenth the number of NEET 16- to 18-year-olds.
See The NYA pages, p22.
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