Young people and the predictability of precarious transitions

King, Hannah

Young people and the predictability of precarious transitions

King, Hannah

Authors

Dr Hannah King hannah.king@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Contributors

Liam Foster
Editor

Anne Brunton
Editor

Chris Deeming
Editor

Tina Haux
Editor

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

Acceptance Date	Nov 12, 2014
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.
Publisher URL	http://www.social-policy.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/King.pdf