{"id":484358,"date":"2026-06-05T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/484358\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:26:18","slug":"mental-health-charity-says-neet-wrongly-labels-people-as-absent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/484358\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health charity says &#8216;Neet&#8217; wrongly labels people as absent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Young people are being stigmatised by the language used around youth unemployment, a mental health charity has claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Merseyside-based Be Free Campaign said &#8220;Neet&#8221; &#8211; which stands for Not in Employment, Education or Training &#8211; portrayed young people in a negative light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It suggested a better term could be &#8220;Leet&#8221;, to acknowledge how young people are Looking for Employment, Education or Training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Be Free Campaign&#8217;s youth development officer Rushid Afzali said young people were &#8220;tired of being labelled and&#8230; being put into a category that is labelling them as absent, labelling them as something they are not.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young people are being stigmatised by the language used around youth unemployment, a mental health charity has claimed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-484358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}