The most recent statistics from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, for the second quarter of 2009, do not make for reassuring reading. They show that record numbers of 18- to 24-year-olds are not in school, college or work. There are now more than 100,000 more young people considered to be Neet than there were this time last year.
That's 100,000 more cases of disillusion and disappointment, thwarted dreams and ambitions. The total rise is from 730,000 last year to 835,000 18- to 24-year-olds who are now Neet. What a sad statistic.
Within these overall figures there's been a surge at the lower end of the age range too, the 16- to 18-year-olds. There are now 233,000 Neets in this age group, 13,000 more than the first quarter of 2009.
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