Rose Green experienced half a dozen children's homes from age 13 and grew up in care in north London. Finding a career was not a priority amid trauma and self-parenting during childhood. At 26, she works as an employment and training officer at the local council after completing a care leavers' internship and now helps other care leavers overcome employment hurdles. Youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) has risen by over a quarter in five years to almost one million, with 948,000 aged 16–24 NEET in the three months to June. Care leavers face significantly higher NEET risk, while economic cooling and policy promises shape the challenge.
Getting started in the world of work was not easy for Rose Green. Having experienced half a dozen children's homes from the age of 13, while growing up in care in north London, finding a career was the last thing on her mind. Having that corporate parenting, it can be difficult, she says. Sometimes things like completing school, or uni, you're faced with so much trauma that you haven't really got the time to finish all of that.
Despite those challenges, the 26-year-old from Camden has found work as an employment and training officer at the local council. After completing a care leavers' internship, she now helps others to overcome the same hurdles. Green's work will be critical not just for the next generation but for the British economy at large, and for Keir Starmer's government, as Labour promises to fix what experts have called a crisis in youth employment.
Official figures on Thursday show that the number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) has leapt by more than a quarter in the past five years to reach almost 1m. In the three months to June, there were 948,000 young people aged 16 to 24 who were Neet, according to the Office for National Statistics. The number has increased from 750,000 at the end of 2019, and by about 40,000 since Labour came to power a year ago.
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