10 March 2013

Fact File 2, Young adults today – Education, training and employment and young adults in the criminal justice system

Young adults

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How can high quality opportunities support young people and programmes be tailored to specific needs? This report looks at participation in education, truancy and exclusion, and education and training in custody. It considers the influences of ethnicity, gender and socio-economic status and finds that improvements to education and training can help reduce reoffending.

Publisher: Young People in Focus

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