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The number of young people who are not in employment, education or training in the UK has increased sharply in the last year, showing official data suggesting that men are particularly struggling to enter the slowdown of labor market.
About 907,000 people between the ages of 16 and 24 were classified as “NEET” at the end of 2024, 13.4 percent of all those in that age group showed the figures published by the National Statistics Office on Thursday. It indicates an increase of 110,000, or 1.3 percentage points, compared to a year earlier.
Precise figures are very uncertain, as the employment of the Statistics Agency, which suffered from low responses and is particularly unstable for younger age groups, is based on the study force of the Statistics Agency.
But they come to a background of very poor employment, with tax records employment Last year, he is straight, and surveying that many employers want to reduce the numbers before increasing taxes and minimum wages in April.
Youth rates from the minimum wage are ready increase sharply from the main rate of adults For people over the age of 21, in accordance with the Government’s goal of moving to one rate for all those over 18 years of age.
The immediate increase in contributions for national employers’ insurance should also be the hardest in sectors such as catering and retail, which often employ a large number of young people in a lesson with short -time and relatively low salary.
“With the fall of vacancies and slow labor markets, the estimates seem to show that young people are the hardest hit,” said Ben Harrison, director of the Lancaster University Foundation, noting that the information, if they were correct, showed that the NEETSA level was 10 years old.
Ons data showed a higher young man’s rate outside or training, with 14.4 percent 16 to 24-year-olds classified as Neet compared to 12.3 percent of young women. However, an increase from year to year was similar to both.
At the beginning of their careers, people tend to suffer the most, because employers generally reduced their employment before releasing existing staff.
Stephen Evans, Executive Director of the Institute of Learning and Work, said the research organization, said that “a worrying increase could mean further problems in the absence of economic growth” and that he emphasized the importance of establishing a state guarantee for work or a training place.
A “Youth Warranty” that should offer all 18- to 21-year-olds approach to business, a place for training or apprenticeship, part of the Government plans for reinforcing support for the unemployed and economically inactive. It will also expand access to mental health services, career tips and work experience.
But Harrison noted that almost half of those who were in the latest data were in the latest data between the ages of 22 and 24, which suggests that many of those who needed the help would miss the plans of ministers.
