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Too many young people in England are not in education, employment or training (NEET) or their whereabouts are unknown, despite efforts to tackle the problem, Ofsted’s Director for Further Education and Skills, Lorna Fitzjohn, has said.

In August 2010 Young Peoples Support Service in Dumfries, supported by ten other agencies and the four central secondary schools in the area, launched a pilot project aimed at Christmas Leavers who had completed S4, who had expressed no desire to go on to further education and who would enter the employment market in January 2011.

To better understand young people aged 18 to 24 not in education, employment or training (NEET) the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) commissioned the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) to analyse data collected from interviews conducted as part of the NEET National Research Project.

A report published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) assesses implementation in England of the second half of the current European Social Fund (ESF) programme to support people entering jobs and progressing within work, and support for young people not in employment, education or training (NEET).