{"id":55090,"date":"2015-03-12T12:54:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ac92dc26f7954b3ab5ef13aaabbc1873"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:54:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:54:34","slug":"press-release-highest-proportion-of-young-people-in-education-or-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55090","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Highest proportion of young people in education or training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The local authority figures show that 90.2% of 16- and 17-year-olds were in education or training at the end of December 2014 &#8211; a rise of 0.4%. This is equivalent to around 4,000 people compared to the same period in 2013. This is up 2.3 percentage points since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s (12 March 2015) figures support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/number-of-young-people-neet-falls-across-the-board\">data published last month<\/a> showing the number of young people not in education, employment or training (<abbr title=\"Not in education, employment or training.\">NEET<\/abbr>) from October to December had reached its lowest level since 2007. <\/p>\n<p>More than half of local authorities saw the number of 16- and 17-year-olds in education or training rise, and Skills Minister Nick Boles has written to the 9 poorest performing areas asking them to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Skills Minister Nick Boles said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As part of our long-term economic plan we are ensuring young people are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Only last month we saw evidence of this with figures showing a return to <abbr title=\"Not in education, employment or training.\">NEET<\/abbr> levels not seen since before the economic crisis, and today\u2019s statistics provide further cause for optimism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We are determined this improvement continues, which is why I have written to local authorities where performance is not of a sufficiently high standard and asked them to take action to ensure even more pupils receive the education and training they need to succeed in modern Britain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/participation-in-education-and-training-by-local-authority\">local authority statistics for 16- and 17-year-olds participating in education or training at the end of December 2014<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s figures are based solely on local authority data, whereas last month\u2019s quarterly <abbr title=\"Young people not in education, employment or training.\">NEETs<\/abbr> figures were based on data from the Labour Force Survey. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_997\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>DfE enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Central newsdesk<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7783 8300\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">General enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0370 000 2288\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 90% of 16- and 17-year-olds were actively participating in education, employment or training at the end of December<\/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\/55090"}],"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=55090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}