The Be Free Campaign has issued an open letter to the UK Government calling for a fundamental shift in how young people outside education and employment are described, urging officials to replace the term “NEET” (Not in Education, Employment or Training) with “LEET” (Looking for Education, Employment or Training). What is NEET to LEET NEET, meaning “Not in Education, Employment or Training”, has been widely used for over two decades in policy, research and media to describe y

Great Britain likes to sell itself an unrealistic dream of universal opportunity, though the reality is strictly local. Coined the ‘postcode lottery’, it ensures a child’s fate is decided via a map rather than a mind, entrenching a geographical inequality that defies our meritocratic myths. The youth services infrastructure we once viewed as a social bedrock has been systematically dismantled, evaporating under a 73% real-terms funding cut since 2010. We call it fiscal respon