{"id":446660,"date":"2026-02-26T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446660\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:50:07","slug":"young-people-out-of-work-training-and-education-edges-closer-to-one-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446660\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people out of work, training and education edges closer to one million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, they are slightly lower &#8211; 0.4% &#8211; than the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ONS said the increase in Neets was driven by a growing number of young women who are out of work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some 12.2% of young women were Neet at the end of 2025, which is higher than the previous quarter. But the number of young male Neets dropped slightly in the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A young person is considered Neet if they are unemployed (looking for work) or economically inactive (not actively looking for work and not waiting to start a job or caring for family).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The number of unemployed Neets rose by 12.3% from the previous quarter, while the number of economically inactive Neets fell 6.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Someone in formal education, such as school or university, doing an apprenticeship or vocational course, is not considered to be Neet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, they are slightly lower &#8211; 0.4% &#8211; than the same period last year. The ONS said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-446660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}