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Social farms provide health, social and educational care to disadvantaged young people.
Despite economic hardships, young people haven’t been pushed into crime. But can we trust the data?
Conservative and Labour proposals for young jobseekers have different rhetoric, but both miss the point.
When the Youth Contract was launched in 2012, it was described by deputy prime minister Nick Clegg as “a major moment for Britain’s unemployed young people”. With an overall budget of £1bn, the plan was…
Students collecting their GCSE results this summer will now be obliged to participate in education and training until at least the end of the academic year in which they turn 17. From the summer of 2015…
I have worked with young people all my life, as a youth worker, academic teacher and youth policy adviser. I have observed their trajectories, listened to their aspirations, supported them in the steps…
Across the world, governments are asking how to close the gap between the world of education and the world of employment. Now a new collection of papers has set out just how important employer interventions…
Governments across Europe are searching for effective policies to drive down youth unemployment. Most European countries have experienced an alarming rise in the levels of young people (16-24) who are…
Recessions always hit young people hard. Firms’ first response to declining orders is to stop hiring new recruits rather than sacking experienced staff. Young people disproportionately rely on new hiring…
Like fewer causalities on the road or at war, new data released on the number of 16 to 24 year olds not in education, employment or training (NEETs), was conveyed as good news in what is a bad situation…
New figures have been published on the number of young people the government classes as NEET – not in any form of education, employment or training. The statistics show that the number of 16-24 year olds…
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Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Education and Industry, University of Warwick
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Visiting Professor of Social Inclusion Studies, Centre for Children, Schools and Families Department of Psychology and Counselling, University of Greenwich
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Honorary fellow in Social Policy, University of York
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Professor of Economic and Social Policy, University of Bath
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Head of the Centre for Education & Industry, University of Warwick
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Professor of European Youth Policy, Faculty of Business and Society, University of South Wales
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Researcher at The Work Foundation
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Researcher, School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, The Open University
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics, Lancaster University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Bournemouth University
