by Julia Evans | Jan 26, 2026
Youth employment charity Resurgo has today relaunched under the name Spear, reflecting its total focus on the highly effective Spear Programme. The award-winning charity, which was founded in 2003, launched a new website. The site puts the voices and stories of young...
by Julia Evans | Nov 20, 2025
As new figures reveal that the number of young people out of work and education remains stubbornly high at 946.000 – around 1 in 8 of those aged 16-24 – we are calling for the government to focus funding on support that’s proven to work. The number of young women who...
by Ben Cotterill | Aug 21, 2025
Latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics estimate that in April-June 2025, there were 948,000 people aged 16-24 neither earning nor learning in the UK. This figure accounts for 12.8% of young people – or around 1 in 8. The figures for those not in...
by Ben Cotterill | May 23, 2025
New figures out today show an overall drop in the number of young people jobless and not in education, but a slight rise among young women. The official figures, which cover January to March 2025, estimate there were 923,000 people aged 16-24 classed as “not in...
by Ben Cotterill | Mar 3, 2025
Latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics estimate that at the end of 2024, there were 987,000 NEET 16-24-year-olds in the UK. This figure stands at an 11-year high, and accounts for nearly 1 in 7 young people. Resurgo’s Senior Partnerships...
