Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said: “The number of young people in our country who are not in education, employment or training is far too high, and that’s why we’re taking action on school attendance, because we know that if children drop out of school and aren’t there regularly, that does then feed through into the numbers of children, longer-term, who aren’t an employment or training.
Slight fall in number of young people not in work, education or training
