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UK policy responses to the NEET agenda SKOPE Research Paper No. 130, 2021  \nSue Maguire (University of Bath) and Ewart Keep (University of Oxford)  \nEditor’s Foreword  \nSKOPE Publications  \nThis series publishes the work of the members and associates of SKOPE. A formal editorial process ensures that standards of quality and objectivity are maintained.  \nOrders for publications should be addressed to the SKOPE Project Administrator, Department of Education, University of Oxford, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford, OX2 6PY Research papers can be downloaded from the website:  \n[www.skope.ox.ac.uk](www.skope.ox.ac.uk)  \nISSN 1466-1535  \n© 2021 SKOPE  \nAbstract  \nThis paper provides an overview of government policy on young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) across the four UK nations. The paper argues that policy in England on this topic is less well-developed and coherent than in the other UK nations, and that the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic will serve to amplify the negative impacts of a set of underlying changes that have been taking place in the youth labour market and in employers’ recruitment and selection practices. In addition, the paper notes that in much of the activity directed at reducing those with NEET status has been funded through the EU’s European Social Fund and that uncertainty now clouds the continuance of these schemes, and that in England government has increasingly relied on the charities to help fill gaps in outreach and provision.  \nSinging from the same hymn sheet? UK policy responses to the NEET agenda Sue Maguire (University of Bath) and Ewart Keep (University of Oxford)  \nIntroduction  \nInternationally, the large number of young people who are defined as NEET (not in education, employment or training) and their increased propensity to churn between social and economic disengagement and any form of work, education and training continues to challenge many policymakers. While there has been a reduction in recent years in unemployment rates and a growth in the volume of jobs available both within the UK and across other advanced economies, the NEET‘problem’ persists. There are basically two reasons for this. Firstly, since the inception of the term‘NEET’ in the UK in the late 1990s, the age range included in the definition has progressively been extended from 16-to-18-year-olds to embrace a much wider age group, which, in some countries, includes younger adults up to the age of 35 years. Secondly, as well as the young unemployed who are actively seeking work, the NEET group has increasingly comprised growing numbers of young people who are economically inactive, i.e. those who are not actively seeking work due, predominantly, to illness or caring responsibilities. Moreover, in England the government’s focus remains on tackling youth unemployment, while a ‘policy silence’ surrounds the issue of economic inactivity rates among young people in the NEET group (Maguire 2018) .  \nWithin the UK, the pattern of responsibility for the NEET agenda is complex, as it rests not only with the UK government, but also with the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to develop and implement policy initiatives. Therefore, there is no UK-wide NEET policy or strategy. It also cuts across a number of different policy arenas, including health, welfare, education and employment and skills, making ownership of the NEET agenda more difficult to establish within the auspices of different government departments. Furthermore, in a similar veinto other policy areas, the profile given to the NEET agenda has dissipated since 2010 in some parts of the UK, due to austerity measures, budget cuts and, more recently, the policy focus on Brexit, resulting in reduced and uneven interventions available to support young people.  \nThis paper presents evidence from research in each of the four UK countries to investigate approaches to, and effective implementation ","cbCaiqAXGNj5rGIR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqAXGNj5rGIR","pdf",466873,"English","# Introduction\n## Context\n# Abstract\n## Policy arguments and Covid-19 implications\n# Context within UK policy governance\n## Devolution and cross-policy responsibilities\n# Research scope and conclusions","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper examine about NEET policy in the UK?\",\"answer\":\"The paper reviews government policy toward young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training across the four UK nations and assesses policy approaches and implementation up to 2019.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper claim England’s NEET policy is less well-developed?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that England’s policy on the NEET topic is less coherent than in other nations, with a “policy silence” around economic inactivity rates and differing degrees of intervention.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper link Covid-19 to NEET outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that Covid-19 economic impacts are expected to raise unemployment, affecting young people disproportionately and amplifying negative effects tied to underlying labour market and recruitment changes.\"}]","Singing from the same hymn sheet? UK policy responses to the NEET agenda - SKOPE Research Paper No. 130 - 2021 | PDF",1792044134]