Young people and the predictability of precarious transitions

King, Hannah

Abstract

Underemployment, insecurity and downward mobility have become the norm for young people in the UK today. Despite supplanting youth unemployment, unfortunately all of the political parties appear to be blissfully ignorant of the issue. A major underlying theme of Coalition policy has been to implement cuts that can save money immediately but which will almost certainly result in increased public expenditure in the future. The predictions made by Bob Coles in IDOW I have taken hold, including increasing youth unemployment and associated benefits costs. On the surface we do indeed appear to have returned to the 1980s where young people are concerned. Educational exclusion rates have consistently fallen under the Coalition and now so too, apparently, are NEET (not in education, employment or training) rates. After record levels of youth unemployment in the UK and globally during the first years of their government, 1 million young people remain unemployed, with almost a third looking for work for more than a year.

Citation

King, H. (2015). Young people and the predictability of precarious transitions. In L. Foster, A. Brunton, C. Deeming, & T. Haux (Eds.), In defence of welfare 2 (143-145). Social Policy Association

• Publication Date: Apr 17, 2015
• Deposit Date: Apr 24, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 28, 2015
• Pages: 143-145
• Book Title: In defence of welfare 2.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1646492
• Publisher URL: http://www.social-policy.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/King.pdf
• Contract Date: Nov 12, 2014