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Sarah MacFarlane smashed it: graduated with distinction from our MSc in Community Development & Youth Work!
📚 Her 2nd-year research? Published ✅
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🌈 New Research Published!
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Our latest article explores youth work’s role in supporting LGBTQ+ young people in a challenging climate.
Key insights:
Pace of change
Fear of wrong terms
Power of the Youth Work approach
Need for staff development
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Chart showing Change in annual income in cash terms (left-hand side) and as share of income (righthand side), as a result of tax and benefit policy changes announced since Autumn Budget 2024, by income vigintile: UK, 2029-30
Overall, the combination of tax rises and giveaways since last year’s Budget is progressive.
Incomes for households in the bottom half of the distribution have increased by 1.0 per cent and incomes for households in the top half fell by 0.7 per cent.
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Figure 8 shows, unemployment fell from 69 to 36 per cent among these young NEETs between 2005 and 2025, but this has been more than offset by a sharp rise in inactivity for ‘other’ reasons: while this category accounted for one third (21 per cent) of young NEETs in 2005, by 2025 this share rose to 56 per cent. This suggests that the youngest NEETs are increasingly disengaged with education and the labour market for reasons unrelated to active job searches. Though out-numbered among all NEETs, 16-17-year-olds have played a key role in the broader rise in inactivity for ‘other’ reasons among all NEETs. In contrast, trends among 18-21 and 22-24-year-olds are more similar. Unemployment remains the dominant reason for being NEET, accounting for roughly 40 per cent of NEETs in both groups in 2025. This marks only modest changes over the past two decades as 50 per cent of 18-21-year-olds and 34 per cent of 22-24-year-olds were unemployed in 2005.
It's vital to look at reasons for being NEET for different age groups.
Among 16-17-year-olds, the composition of NEETs has shifted away from unemployment towards less-well-defined forms of inactivity.
In contrast, for 18-24 year olds, unemployment remains the dominant reason for being NEET.
Join us at the #UniversityofDundee Open Day to learn more about our MA in Community Development and Youth Work.
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Join us at the #UniversityofDundee Open Day to learn more about our MA in Community Development and Youth Work.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4d4hdjyc
🗓️ When: Saturday, 25 October
📍 Where: University of Dundee
Come meet us and find out more! 😊
#CommunityDevelopment #YouthWork #SocialJustice #HigherEducation
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