More teenagers outside work and education

There were 120,000 people between the age of 16 to 24 classed as "Neet" – not in education, employment or training – in Yorkshire at the end of the last quarter, according to the Department for Education.

This was up 6,000 from figures at the end of June and represents around one in six people in that age group in Yorkshire.

The number of 16 to 18-year-olds in the region classed as Neet has risen by 8,000 while the number over 18 dropped by 2,000 in the period July-September.

Nationally more than a million 16-24-year-olds were Neet in September. The figure of 1,026,000 is 149,000 higher than at the end of the third quarter of 2005. Admission figures show one in three would-be university students were denied a place this autumn.