Young people are being stigmatised by the language used around youth unemployment, a mental health charity has claimed.
The Merseyside-based Be Free Campaign said “Neet” – which stands for Not in Employment, Education or Training – portrayed young people in a negative light.
It suggested a better term could be “Leet”, to acknowledge how young people are Looking for Employment, Education or Training.
The Be Free Campaign’s youth development officer Rushid Afzali said young people were “tired of being labelled and… being put into a category that is labelling them as absent, labelling them as something they are not.”