1 in 10 teenagers are Neets - not in education, employment or training new figures show. This is an improvement on previous years due to more young people taking sixth form courses or training last year.
Although that may sound shocking for some people reading, for us at Prospex it is no surprise as we see the sharp end with far more than the national average among the young people we work with.
Our challenge is how we help the young people we work with to not be labelled a Neet (I hate terms like this by the way). We already do this especially with our Prospex Works stream but we are always striving to make a bigger impact.
We have some new ideas in the melting pot that we will share at a later point but would love to hear your thoughts on this.