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  • August 7th, 2009 LONDON - A top civil servant in Britain says that teenagers who become 'Neet'-not in education, employment or training-may have a one in six chance of dying within 10 years.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • August 7th, 2009 LONDON - A top civil servant in Britain says that teenagers who become 'Neet'-not in education, employment or training-may have a one in six chance of dying within 10 years.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • Almost one in five school-leavers aged 16 to 24 are classed as 'Neet' - not in education, employment or training - with many living on benefits.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • The UK also had more teenagers classed as "Neet" - not in education, employment or training

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • Youngsters who become "Neet" - not in education, employment or training - face not just difficulties and hardship, but "real dangers and a downward spiral" which can lead to them dying "very, very young", Jon Coles, director-general of schools at the Department for Children, Schools and Families said.

    icCheshireOnline 2009

  • One in six 18-year - olds are classed by the Government as 'Neet' - Not in Education,

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • There are nearly a million young unemployed in Britain and one in 10 people aged 16 to 19 who are "Neet" - not in education, unemployment or training.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • "They found a number of interesting things, but they had found one profoundly shocking thing, which I still find profoundly shocking today, and that is that of their long-term Neet of 10 years ago, those who had been outside the system for a long period of time, whether because they were permanently excluded or simply because they had dropped out at the end of compulsory schooling and had not got into anything else, 15% of those young people of 10 years ago were dead by the time that the research was being done."

    icHuddersfield 2009

  • The two million people people between the ages of 15 and 29 who are in the category that Istat calls Neet — or not in education, employments or training — represent 21.2% of the population, Istat said.

    Italy Has Most 'Idle' Youth Nathania Zevi 2011

  • The problem is worst amongst people aged between 19 and 24, where almost one in five are classed as being "Neet" - not in education, employment or training.

    Evening Standard - Home Anna Davis 2011

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