{"id":751337,"date":"2026-08-27T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751337\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:22:09","slug":"neets-live-more-than-one-in-eight-young-people-are-out-of-work-training-or-education-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751337\/","title":{"rendered":"Neets live: More than one in eight young people are out of work, training or education, figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the Youth Guarantee scheme – and is it working?published at 11:18 BST<\/p>\n

11:18 BST<\/p>\n

Kate McGough, education reporter & Emer Moreau, business reporter<\/p>\n

The government has already taken steps to tackle the Neet crisis.<\/p>\n

In 2024, it launched the Youth Guarantee scheme<\/a>, which is a commitment to ensure that every 18 to 21-year-old in England gets access to education, training, or help to find a job or an apprenticeship. <\/p>\n

There are a number of parts to the Guarantee, including incentives to employers to take on young people, and short, fully-funded training courses in specific sectors like construction and hospitality. <\/p>\n

Another part is the Jobs Guarantee which aims to help long-term unemployed young people by providing six months of paid work to eligible 18 to 24-year-olds who have been receiving Universal Credit for 18 months without earning or learning.This is intended to create employment for 90,000 young people over three years. <\/p>\n

Eight areas in England are part of a trial for the Youth Guarantee trailblazer scheme, which was created to test local ways of reaching vulnerable young people who were out of work and education.<\/p>\n

But the mayor of the West of England, one of the trial areas, said the initial results were “not good enough” after it reached only 300 people so far.<\/p>\n

“There’s some really good stories, there’s some really good outcomes, but I would like to see a much bigger impact,” Helen Godwin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is the Youth Guarantee scheme – and is it working?published at 11:18 BST 11:18 BST Kate McGough,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751337","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=751337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}