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Young Neets 'need opportunities'

Any young person unemployed for a year will be given a job, work experience or training and if they do not accept it they will lose their benefits, the government has announced. Correspondent Jack Izzard reports on the problems of the young unemployed in Swindon. Professor Richard Pring, of Oxford University, reflects on why nearly one million 16 to 24-year-olds are not in employment, education or training in England.

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