{"id":52713,"date":"2015-01-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=eef6eda240810cba4e8e081a2e344730"},"modified":"2015-01-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T12:00:00","slug":"press-release-large-drop-in-young-jobless-total-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52713","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Large drop in young jobless total in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has welcomed new figures which showed a large drop in the number of young people \u201cnot in education, employment or training\u201d (Neet) in Wales. <\/p>\n<p>Latest data from the Office of National Statistics published yesterday (20 January) showed that 9,100 (8.3%) of 16 to 18-year-olds in Wales were \u201cNeet\u201d in September 2014 &#8211; down from 12,900 (11.9%) the previous year. <\/p>\n<p>The figures also showed that the number of \u201cNeets\u201d aged 19 to 24-years-old was also down &#8211; from 51,300 (21.4%) in September 2013 to 49,000 (19.7%) the following year. <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"stephen-crabb-said\">Stephen Crabb said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These figures show more good progress for the Welsh economy.<\/p>\n<p>They show that more and more young people in Wales are reaching their full potential and are developing the skills to get a good job and the security of a regular wage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This is part of our long term economic plan to build a skilful and dynamic workforce, get people into work, drive growth and attract investment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Crabb: &quot;These figures show more good progress for the Welsh economy.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}