It's an ugly acronym. And it's an even uglier situation.
The reality of so-called "Neets" in the UK - young people who haven't got jobs, aren't studying or being trained up - has seen hundreds upon hundreds of thousands in their late teens or early-20s struggle to find a decent future for well over a decade.
It costs the taxpayer billions. And the human cost is variously described as a disaster, a national shame, even a moral crisis.
When the phrase Neet was first coined by Tony Blair's Downing Street in 1999, the focus was on 170,000 or so teenagers who were not in education, employment or training. After many attempts at solving the problem, add in a pandemic and years of a sluggish economy, it's acute - with nearly a million under-25s in that situation.
