Unemployment: Young People

(asked on 9th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his Answer of 6 March to Question 129597 on Unemployment: Young People, how many and what proportion of pupils who were (a) eligible for free school meals, (b) not eligible for free school meals, who were (i) included in the Children in Need census, (ii) not included in the Children in Need census, were not in education, employment or training for the whole of academic year 2013-14, three years after finishing key stage 4, in each ethnic group.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 19th March 2018

The following tables show the number and proportion of pupils that were not in education, employment or training for the whole of academic year 2013-14, three years after finishing key stage 4. These figures include those eligible for free school meals, whether or not they were in the Children in Need census and their summary ethnic group. Pupils whose eligibility for free school meals is unknown are not included in these tables.

Eligible for free school meals between 10 and 15

Not eligible for free school meals between 10 and 15

Summary ethnic group

In the Children in Need census

Not in the Children in Need census

In the Children in Need census

Not in the Children in Need census

White

7,900 (26%)

6,300 (9%)

4,800 (19%)

6,400 (2%)

Mixed

500 (22%)

300 (6%)

200 (17%)

200 (2%)

Black

400 (15%)

300 (3%)

200 (14%)

200 (1%)

Asian

200 (11%)

300 (2%)

200 (10%)

300 (1%)

Any other group

100 (12%)

100 (2%)

100 (22%)

less than 100 (1%)

Unknown

600 (31%)

300 (10%)

300 (21%)

300 (1%)

Total

9,600 (24%)

7,500 (7%)

5,800 (18%)

7,400 (2%)


Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100.

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