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The Department’s estimate of the number and proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) cannot be disaggregated to regional or local authority level. However, we can give an indication of the number of 16, 17 and 18-year-olds1 NEET in 2006 in England from data provided by Connexions services, and this is given in the table. Figures for 1997 are not available.
Data provided by Connexions services are used to set and monitor local authority NEET targets. However, it should be noted that figures are calculated on a different basis from that used in the Department’s estimates, and therefore do not give the same totals.
1 Connexions service figures relate to calendar age (rather than academic age as is used in the Department’s participation estimates).
16 to 18-year-olds NEET Estimated number Percentage South-east Bracknell Forest 180 6.4 Reading 400 7.3 Windsor and Maidenhead 140 4.2 Slough 240 5.4 West Berkshire 240 5.2 Wokingham 150 4.8 Kent 2,970 6.4 Medway 620 6.1 Buckinghamshire 450 3.2 Milton Keynes 490 6.5 Oxfordshire 900 4.8 Portsmouth 460 9.9 Southampton 640 9.4 Isle of Wight 260 5.9 Hampshire 2,140 5.2 Surrey 960 3.3 Brighton and Hove 710 10.9 East Sussex 1,170 8.0 West Sussex 1,050 4.5 London Camden 380 7.5 Islington 550 8.6 Kensington and Chelsea 190 7.9 Lambeth 510 10.5 Southwark 610 11.7 Wandsworth 400 6.0 Westminster 260 6.5 Barking and Dagenham 730 11.4 Bexley 480 6.9 City of London 10 1.1 Greenwich 840 12.0 Hackney 670 13.1 Havering 590 6.1 Lewisham 500 6.7 Newham 950 10.8 Redbridge 430 4.8 Tower Hamlets 680 10.9 Barnet 510 4.8 Enfield 690 7.0 Haringey 630 12.5 Waltham Forest 540 6.3 Bromley 510 5.0 Croydon 830 8.1 Kingston 180 3.4 Merton 200 6.7 Richmond 140 4.0 Sutton 340 4.8 Brent 450 6.7 Ealing 500 7.8 Hammersmith and Fulham 280 8.4 Harrow 360 5.3 Hillingdon 710 7.0 Hounslow 600 8.3 East of England Bedfordshire 920 7.2 Luton 620 9.4 Cambridgeshire 900 5.4 Peterborough 610 9.5 Essex 2,890 6.9 Thurrock 450 7.8 Southend 530 7.0 Hertfordshire 1,670 4.6 Norfolk 2,040 7.9 Suffolk 1,780 8.4 South-west Bournemouth 400 8.5 Dorset 770 6.8 Poole 290 6.2 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 1,060 6.1 Devon 1,300 6.0 Plymouth 710 7.4 Torbay 320 6.8 Gloucestershire 920 4.6 Somerset 760 4.8 Bath and North East Somerset 260 4.2 Bristol 950 7.8 North Somerset 250 4.8 South Gloucestershire 390 5.0 Swindon 580 8.3 Wiltshire 740 6.0 West Midlands Birmingham 3,920 11.4 Solihull 690 8.0 Dudley 840 6.4 Sandwell 1,140 15.6 Walsall 870 9.1 Wolverhampton 960 10.8 Coventry 950 8.7 Warwickshire 1,150 6.7 Herefordshire 290 5.5 Worcestershire 920 5.5 Shropshire 450 5.2 Telford and Wrekin 530 9.1 Staffordshire 2,050 7.6 Stoke on Trent 1,430 16.1 East Midlands Derby 710 8.4 Derbyshire 1,480 7.1 Leicester 1,200 9.9 Leicestershire 1,080 5.5 Lincolnshire 1,130 5.0 Rutland 10 2.0 Northamptonshire 1,420 6.4 Nottinghamshire 1,220 4.9 Nottingham 930 8.0 Yorkshire and the Humber East Riding of Yorkshire 620 5.6 Kingston upon Hull 1,330 14.1 North East Lincolnshire 660 9.8 North Lincolnshire 570 9.2 Barnsley 900 12.3 Doncaster 1,180 11.5 Rotherham 1,130 10.8 Sheffield 1,680 10.5 Bradford 1,560 9.8 Calderdale 640 9.7 Kirklees 1,420 9.7 Leeds 2,170 9.1 Wakefield 1,230 10.6 York 420 5.9 North Yorkshire 880 4.8 North-west Cheshire 1,260 5.4 Warrington 450 7.0 Cumbria 950 5.8 Bolton 1,170 12.7 Bury 550 8.0 City of Manchester 1,760 11.4 Oldham 750 8.8 Rochdale 720 12.1 Salford 750 10.2 Stockport 810 8.8 Trafford 490 7.3 Tameside 720 9.1 Wigan 1,140 9.9 Halton 540 11.8 Knowsley 690 13.7 Liverpool 2,040 13.2 Sefton 870 7.6 St. Helens 680 10.0 Wirral 1,210 10.0 Blackburn with Darwen 600 8.6 Blackpool 620 8.8 Lancashire 2,820 7.5 North-east Durham 2,060 12.9 Northumberland 980 10.0 Darlington 330 6.7 Stockton-on-Tees 610 9.9 Middlesbrough 870 13.7 Hartlepool 400 11.1 Redcar and Cleveland 610 11.9 Sunderland 1,320 13.3 Gateshead 750 12.3 Newcastle upon Tyne 1,120 9.4 North Tyneside 700 11.4 South Tyneside 550 11.3 1 2006 data are an average Notes: 1. 16 to 18-year-olds known to be undertaking a Gap Year, or in custody, are not recorded by Connexions as NEET 2. The percentage and number NEET has been adjusted to assume that a proportion of young people whose current activity is not known are NEET.