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Graduates make up 10.6% of Friday's Neet figures, equivalent to about 90,000 young people, according to analysis by the Youth Futures Foundation.

Most young people who are Neet fall into the economically inactive category, with 595,000 young people economically inactive in the latest stats, compared to 392,000 who were unemployed.

Those working with young Neet people say poor mental health is one of the key issues preventing them finding work.

He says he became Neet after he got in with the "wrong people".

She says around half of the young people on their Talent Match programme, targeted at getting Neet young people into work or training, have special educational needs.