A 16 to 18 year old is defined as being in education or training if he or she is in full-time education, work based learning (WBL), employer funded training, or other education and training. A 16 to 18 year old is defined as being in employment if he or she is an employee, self-employed, on a WBL programme or an unpaid family worker. Source is the Department for Education.
Two alternative ways of measuring NEETs are available. One identifies the percentage at a single point in time. The latest available figure for Devon is from December 2015, which identified around 1,000 NEETs in the county covering around 4.1% of the population aged 16 to 18. The approach used for the Devon JSNA profiles involved looking at the proportion in the NEET category at any point in the year, which covers around 7.3% of the population. Figure 8.22 looks at the pattern by community and reveals that rates are highest in more deprived urban centres and area in remote or deprived rural areas (particularly across West and Mid Devon. This is further illustrated in figure 8.23, which reveals that rates are over three times higher in the most deprived communities, although the gap has fallen substantially since 2013.
Figure 8.22, Percentage of 16 to 18 year olds who were not in education, employment or training at some point during 2015 by LSOA
Source: Careers South West, 2016
Figure 8.23, Percentage of 16 to 18 year olds who were not in education, employment or training at some point during the year by deprivation and year, 2013 to 2015
Source: Careers South West, 2016