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NEETS -Not in Education, Employment, or Training work.If you're aged 16-17 do they, or their parents , in those circumstances get any benefits for that ? Eg Child Benefit and Tax Credits only to apply tho those in full time education or training course) Or do they have to wait(potentially 2 years without any funds until they turn 18 to claim universal credit ?
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Gov website says
"You can leave school on the last Friday in June if you’ll be 16 by the end of the summer holidays.
"You must then do one of the following until you’re 18:
stay in full-time education, for example at a college
start an apprenticeship or traineeship
spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training"
Which makes the NEET phrase somewhat contradictory and redundant ?
"You can leave school on the last Friday in June if you’ll be 16 by the end of the summer holidays.
"You must then do one of the following until you’re 18:
stay in full-time education, for example at a college
start an apprenticeship or traineeship
spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training"
Which makes the NEET phrase somewhat contradictory and redundant ?
Compulsory education (possibly alongside work) until the age of 18 was passed into law under the Education Act 1944 but the relevant section was never brought into force. The Government finally caught up with those plans over 60 years later, with the passing of the Education and Skills Act 2008. That legislation initially extended the length of compulsory education (whether at a school or college or as part of a traineeship or apprenticeship) to the age of 17 and then to 18.
So everyone up until the age of 18 is meant to be in some form of education. However, just as every child between the ages of 5 and 16 is meant to attend school (or to be educated at home) but not all do so, there will be some young people who don't take on an apprenticeship or traineeship, or attend school or college.
However the term 'NEETs' is used by the Office for National Statistics to refer to people across the 16 to 24 age range, rather than just to 16- to 18-year-olds, so there will inevitably be a somewhat larger number of people in that group than just those who aren't in any form of compulsory education or training:
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So everyone up until the age of 18 is meant to be in some form of education. However, just as every child between the ages of 5 and 16 is meant to attend school (or to be educated at home) but not all do so, there will be some young people who don't take on an apprenticeship or traineeship, or attend school or college.
However the term 'NEETs' is used by the Office for National Statistics to refer to people across the 16 to 24 age range, rather than just to 16- to 18-year-olds, so there will inevitably be a somewhat larger number of people in that group than just those who aren't in any form of compulsory education or training:
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College courses aren't necessarily 'academic', Tali1.
Well before the Education and Skills Act came into force, a young friend of mine joined a plumbing course at West Suffolk College for two days per week and worked for the remaining three. (For the first year of the course he actually worked in an unrelated field, stacking shelves in Tesco. For the second year of the course he had to find himself work with a plumbing company, in order to be able to be awarded his plumbing qualification).
My friends would most certainly have never seen himself as 'academically-inclined' but the type of education he signed up for was largely 'non-academic', and well-suited to his needs, anyway. The current system simply formalises the type of arrangement that he entered into.
Well before the Education and Skills Act came into force, a young friend of mine joined a plumbing course at West Suffolk College for two days per week and worked for the remaining three. (For the first year of the course he actually worked in an unrelated field, stacking shelves in Tesco. For the second year of the course he had to find himself work with a plumbing company, in order to be able to be awarded his plumbing qualification).
My friends would most certainly have never seen himself as 'academically-inclined' but the type of education he signed up for was largely 'non-academic', and well-suited to his needs, anyway. The current system simply formalises the type of arrangement that he entered into.
I'm sure there are some college courses that contain what many would regard as non academic elements - eg car mechanic, hair dressing animal care. All useful of course. I do believe we waste a lot of time and cause a lot of problems by trying to force academic work on students who are much more suited and would benefit a lot more from far more practical courses/activities such as decorating, working in a shop, designing computer games, working on cars. bricklaying etc
Buenchico the young person in question has decided not go go for 2nd year of college. - or any class based environment .Stays at home all day on his playstation."Wants a job" which is easier said than done has his academic results are poor and he has no initiative or confidence.Can't see why anyone would employ him tbh.But apart from that....
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