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Advice to aspire

    Other
  • Tuesday, September 17, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Twelve months after schools took responsibility from local authorities for securing careers guidance for young people, Charlotte Goddard investigates the availability and quality of provision that is out there.

Neet figures show year-on-year rise

    News
  • Thursday, May 24, 2012
  • | CYP Now
A total of 954,000 young people were not in work, education, or training in England in the first three months of this year, government figures show.

Charity urges five-year plan on Neets

    News
  • Thursday, May 21, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Government must develop a cross-departmental strategy to improve careers advice and school-to-work transitions if it is to prevent tens of thousands of young people becoming Neet over the next five years, a charity has warned.

Youth employability is reliant on a jobs market

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 28, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The youth unemployment figures - over one million and rising - were not unexpected, but are intensely worrying. The national figure is bad enough, but the regional variation means that in some areas there is a real danger of endemic long-term unemployment.

Youth employment relies on opportunities, not just skills

    Other
  • Monday, March 31, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Twenty-five years ago, the Confederation of British Industry published a report calling on business to forge better links with secondary education, particularly through helping pupils to understand the world of work. This was, it argued, as much a matter of self-interest as anything else: a "demographic time-bomb" was about to explode as the population of young people leaving school decreased by a third and so only those businesses with good links with schools would retain any chance of selecting the pick of the crop.

Long-term youth unemployment increasing, ONS warns

    News
  • Tuesday, October 12, 2021
  • | CYP Now
Latest data on the labour market finds that between June and August this year, nearly 13,000 more people aged 16 to 24 had been unemployed for more than a year compared with the same period a year earlier.