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Teenagers who refuse to work, attend training or go to school are to be issued with on the spot fines under government proposals. Any who still fail to comply would then be taken to court where they could face further penalties. The measures are designed to enforce a new law which will be outlined in this week’s Queen’s speech. It will say that all teenagers must remain in education, training or employment until they are 18. The new law will effectively outlaw “Neets”, teenagers and young people who are “not in education, employment or training”. In a speech, Balls will put the proportion of Neets at about 10% of 16 to 18-year-olds. On today’s Sunday Programme, he will argue that the change is “the biggest educational reform in the last 50 years”. Balls will admit that Britain performs poorly in terms of the numbers of teenagers who drop out of the system at the age of 16. In international league tables, he will say, Britain is “pretty much at the bottom, despite the rise in participation we’ve seen... the vast majority of countries have more people staying on [after 16] than we do”.
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