Issue - meetings

Report ED17043

The Committee considered a report providing an update on the Borough’s performance relating to support for young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET and the strategies in place to increase the participation of young people in education, employment and training (EET). 

The Education and Skills Act 2008 introduced a duty on all young people to participate in EET until their 18^th birthday.  Within this requirement, young people were able to choose from three options comprising full-time education (including school, college or home education), work-based learning with training (such as an apprenticeship) or employment, self-employment or volunteering with accredited training.

In Bromley, the NEET figures for 2016/17 demonstrated a significant improvement on the previous year for both the NEET and the ‘Not Known’ categories. The percentage of young people within this age group who were NEET had decreased from 1.8% to 1.7% between 2015/16 and 2016/17, and the percentage of young people whose EET status was ‘Not Known’ figure had reduced from 3.5% to 1.8% during the same period.  The percentage of young people within this age group who were either NEET or whose EET status was ‘Not Known’ had reduced from 5.3% to 3.4% between 2015/16 and 2016/17.

RESOLVED that the update be noted.