Skills for Life and NEETs

This section looks at skills for life and young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET). There are also links to further related data and intelligence.

Skills for life are defined as "the ability to read, write, and speak in English (or Welsh), and to use mathematics at a level necessary to function at work an in society". Information communication technology (ICT) and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) are also recognised and included within the definition of skills for life.

Indicators

The data available to monitor this indicator is a sub-section of the data within the participation of young people in learning and training.

Indicators

A summary of the information available on NEETs is available in the HLMR publication.

Skills for Life indicators

HLMR Home page

• National Statistics
• Nomis
• Neighbourhood Statistics
• Skills for Life Unit
• DfES statistics
• State of the South West - Skills & Learning
• Go to SLIM database