Our latest Youth Jobs Gap report reveals how multiple layers of disadvantage affect young people’s chances of not being in employment, education or training (NEET).
The findings are stark
- Triple jeopardy: Young people who are from low socio-economic backgrounds, who have low qualifications and also have SEND are almost three times more likely to be not in education, training or employment (NEET) than the average.
- Geographical divides: The ten local authority areas with the highest NEET challenges include both urban areas and coastal towns, underlining a geographically uneven playing field.
- Marginalised communities: Young people from Gypsy, Roma, and Irish Traveller groups face some of the greatest risk of exclusion from the labour market.
Youth Jobs Gap: Exploring compound disadvantage is the tenth report of a groundbreaking research series investigating the link between education and employment outcomes.
Working with the National Institute for Social and Economic Research (NIESR), and sponsored by Ares Charitable Foundation for the latest Youth Jobs Gap report, Impetus analysed the government’s Longitudinal Educational Outcomes dataset to explore how combinations of characteristics that impact NEET rates compared to the average. For the first time it shows the links between socio-economic background, level of qualification, identity characteristics and employment outcomes, giving us the clearest picture to date of the factors associated with employment outcomes for different groups of young people.
Previous research findings
The first nine research briefings in our Youth Jobs Gap series revealed findings with important implications for delivery organisations, funders and policymakers.
These findings included:
- Young people with better qualifications are much less likely to be NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training)
- Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are 50% more likely to be NEET than their similarly qualified but better-off peers
- The variation between different local authorities within a region are much bigger than the variation between different regions
- Three quarters of NEET young people have been NEET for at least 12 months
- LEO data enables us to effectively measure the success of interventions
