Connect your practical experience with research informed frameworks for understanding the risks to NEEThood and planning effective interventions.
Developed in collaboration with educators and local authority professionals during a three year research study to understand and intervene on Early School leaving across five EU nations, these research-informed tools offer practical and CPD support for professionals working with young people at risk of NEET/Early School Leaving.
Tackling NEET Toolkit
In this toolkit, you will find various resources. Each one has a description below. Resources are accessed via the links in descriptors or the buttons above.
Video: Understanding the risks to Early School Leaving/NEET - A 3-minute video introducing a holistic model for understanding the risks to NEET
Training Presentation: Understanding the risks to Early School Leaving/NEET - A narrated training presentation to deepen your understanding of the risks to NEET. Activities support you to apply the insights to young people you support.
Training Activity 1: Applying your understanding of the risks to Early School Leaving/NEET Resource to accompany the training presentation, Understanding the risks to Early School Leaving/NEET, supporting you to apply the learning to a case young person
Case Studies: Understanding the risks to Early School Leaving/NEET - Resource to accompany the training presentation, Understanding the risks to Early School Leaving/NEET. These anonymised case studies, drawn from educator’s examples during the three-year research study, illustrate how the different areas of risk interact and impact individual young people.
Support Tool: Risk Review Tool - A simple tool to enable individualised, student-centred support for young people at risk of NEET/Early school leaving. Ensure you have considered all the different areas of risk for the young person and how these interact to create particular barriers and challenges. This tool can be used during conversations with young people and colleagues; as part of case review processes or to compile information from different agencies to inform person-centred planning.
Article: A Conceptual Framework for Researching the Risks to NEEThood - Peer-reviewed academic article introducing the conceptual framework for understanding risks NEET/Early School leaving developed during a three year research study to understand and intervene on Early School leaving across five EU nations.
Article: Comparing Young People’s and Educators’ Views on the Risks to NEEThood - Peer-reviewed academic article comparing young people’s and educator’s views on the factors that lead to NEET outcomes. Drawing on data from South West England, this paper offers insights into young people’s priorities and experiences.
Video: Tackling Early School Leaving/NEET – Pathway to Change - A 3-minute video introduces a framework explaining why interventions to support young people NEET/ at risk of NEET were effective. The Pathway to Change can support professionals to design interventions based upon an understanding of the key mechanisms which were effective, and led to change, for young people during a three year research study.
Training Presentation: Tackling Early School Leaving/NEET – Pathway to Change - A narrated training presentation to deepen your understanding of what makes interventions effective when tackling NEET/Early School Leaving. Learn about the Pathway to Change and apply this to real life cases from your own experience.
Tackling NEET Intervention Handbook: 13 Intervention Strategies - A detailed handbook of 13 tried and tested intervention approaches for supporting young people at risk of NEET/Early School Leaving. Developed during a three year study across five EU Nations, each strategy is a generic approach that can be tailored to your individual context.
Brief Guide to 13 Intervention Strategies - A short introduction to 13 tried and tested intervention approaches for supporting young people at risk of NEET/Early School Leaving. Developed during a three year study across five EU Nations, each strategy is a generic approach that can be tailored to your individual context. This short guide is used as a resource during the training presentation: Tackling Early School Leaving/NEET – Pathway to Change.
Support Tool: Action Planning Tool - A simple tool to enable individualised, targeted student-centred support for young people at risk of NEET/Early school leaving. Identify appropriate interventions for an individual by first considering where they sit on the ‘Pathway to Change,’ and identify which mechanisms it would be appropriate to target. Use in conjunction with the Brief Guide to 13 Intervention Strategies’ to identify up to three intervention actions to target these needs.
Intervention Case Studies - Three illustrative case studies outlining how educators developed the interventions strategies for their settings. Offers a summary, educator and young person’s views on why it was effective and key learning points.
Article: Five Mechanisms for Tackling the Risks to NEEThood: Introducing a Pathway to Change to Guide Educators’ Support Strategies - Peer-reviewed academic article introducing five mechanisms for tackling the risks to NEET/Early School Leaving and introducing a Pathway to Change to guide educators’ support strategies. Drawn from findings of a three year research study to understand and intervene on Early School leaving across five EU nations