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class="col--md-half col--lg-half margin-bottom--2 flex-col"> <div class="background--gallery margin-top-md--1 margin-bottom-md--2 js-hover-click"> <div class="background--abbey height-sm--35 height-md--26 height-lg--35 overflow--hidden"> <img src="//cdn.ons.gov.uk/assets/images/latest-publications.png" class="width-md--23 width-lg--29 height-md--26 height-lg--35" alt="" /> </div> <div class="box__content padding-top-sm--2 padding-right-sm--1 padding-bottom-sm--2 padding-left-sm--1 padding-top-md--2 padding-right-md--1 padding-bottom-md--2 padding-left-md--1"> <h3> <a class="underline-link" href="/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/bulletins/youngpeoplenotineducationemploymentortrainingneet/november2024"> Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), UK: November 2024 </a> </h3> <h4>What's in the bulletin?</h4> <ul> <li>There was an increase in the number of young people aged 16 to 24 years not in education, employment or training (NEET) in July to September 2024, with the total currently estimated to be 946,000, up from July to September 2023. </li> <li>Increased volatility of Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates, resulting from smaller achieved sample sizes, means that estimates of change should be treated with caution; we recommend using them alongside our labour market indicators Workforce Jobs (WFJ), Claimant Count data, and Pay As You Earn Real Time Information (PAYE RTI) estimates.</li> <li>The longer-term broad coherence between WFJ and RTI, when looking at annual change, suggests that these sources are likely to provide a more reliable estimate of employment, particularly for employees; these sources continue to indicate that we have seen a sustained moderation of growth in employment over the last year.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="background--gallery box__content height--7 border-top--iron-sm border-top--iron-md padding-top-sm--1 padding-left-sm--1 padding-top-md--1 padding-left-md--1"> <a href="" class="block"> Read 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new challenges to higher education, with student budgets being squeezed. Interviews with students in England during the 2022 to 2023 academic year have helped shed light on the difficulties they are facing. </div> <div class="background--gallery box__content height--7 border-top--iron-sm border-top--iron-md padding-top-sm--1 padding-left-sm--1 padding-top-md--1 padding-left-md--1"> <a href="" class="block"> Read this article </a> </div> </div> <a href="#publications" class="btn btn--primary btn--full-width margin-top--2 js-scroll">More publications</a> </div> <div class="flex-col background--gallery padding-top--2 padding-bottom--2 padding-left--1 js-hover-click"> <div class="col col--md-13 col--lg-13 margin-left--0"> <img src="/resource?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/educationandchildcare/articles/thelinksbetweenyoungpeoplebeingimprisonedpupilbackgroundandschoolquality/2023-01-27/7a45739a.png&width=208" alt="" /> </div> <div class="col col--md-30 col--lg-38 margin-left--0"> <div class="box__content padding-left-md--1"> <h4> <a class="underline-link" href="/peoplepopulationandcommunity/educationandchildcare/articles/thelinksbetweenyoungpeoplebeingimprisonedpupilbackgroundandschoolquality/2023-01-27"> The links between young people being imprisoned, pupil background and school quality </a> </h4> <p class="flush"> We find that going to a lower-quality school, as rated by Ofsted, is one of the many factors linked with a higher likelihood of someone being imprisoned. The impact of school quality is comparably low. We also look at the issues of poverty and growing up in care and include the thoughts of people working with at-risk students. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="underline-link" href="#main">Back to top</a> </section> </div> <div class="padding-bottom-sm--2 padding-bottom-md--4"> <section> <div class="wrapper"> <h2 id="datasets">Datasets related to <span class="lowercase">Education and childcare</span></h2> <ul class="list--neutral margin-top--half"> <li class="background--gallery flush-col padding-top--2 padding-bottom--4 padding-left--1 js-hover-click"> <div class="box__content"> <h3 class="font-size--h4"> <a class="underline-link" href="/peoplepopulationandcommunity/educationandchildcare/datasets/2011censuslocalcharacteristicsonqualificationsforoutputareasinenglandandwales"> 2011 Census: Local characteristics on qualifications for Output Areas in England and Wales </a> </h3> <p class="flush">Local characteristics tables focusing on qualifications - these cross tabulations of two or more topics from the 2011 Census provide the greatest level of detail possible for local areas.</p> </div> <li class="background--gallery flush-col padding-top--2 padding-bottom--4 padding-left--1 js-hover-click"> <div class="box__content"> <h3 class="font-size--h4"> <a class="underline-link" href="/peoplepopulationandcommunity/educationandchildcare/datasets/2011censusteachingfile"> 2011 Census: Teaching file </a> </h3> <p class="flush">This census product provides a small sample of non-disclosive microdata as an educational tool to assist with the teaching of statistics and social sciences.</p> </div> <li class="background--gallery flush-col padding-top--2 padding-bottom--4 padding-left--1 js-hover-click"> <div class="box__content"> <h3 class="font-size--h4"> <a class="underline-link" href="/peoplepopulationandcommunity/educationandchildcare/datasets/2011censusdetailedcharacteristicsonqualificationsfor2011censusmergedwardsandmiddlelayersuperoutputareasinenglandandwales"> 2011 Census: Detailed characteristics on qualifications for 2011 Census merged wards and Middle Layer Super Output Areas in England and Wales </a> </h3> <p class="flush">Detailed characteristics tables focusing on qualifications - these cross tabulations of two or more topics from the 2011 Census provide the greatest level of detail possible for wards.</p> </div> </ul> <a href="/peoplepopulationandcommunity/educationandchildcare/datalist?filter=datasets" class="btn btn--primary btn--full-width margin-bottom--2">View all datasets related to Education and childcare</a> <a class="underline-link" href="#main">Back to top</a> </div> </section> </div> <div class="background--gallery padding-bottom-sm--2 padding-bottom-md--4"> <section> <div class="wrapper"> <h2 id="publications">Publications related to <span class="lowercase">Education and childcare</span></h2> <h3>Statistical bulletins</h3> <ul class="list--neutral"> <li class="background--white padding-left-sm--0 padding-top--2 js-hover-click"> <h4 class="tiles__title tiles__title-h4"> <a class="underline-link" href="/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/bulletins/youngpeoplenotineducationemploymentortrainingneet/november2024"> Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), UK: November 2024 </a> </h4> <p class="tiles__content"> Estimates of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training, by age and sex. 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