As new youth unemployment (Not in Education, Employment or Training) figures highlight how those just leaving education are being hardest hit by the credit crunch, an East London charity is beating the trend and showing a model which helps young people beat the odds.

Lorainne Connolly, Community Newswire, August 17th 2009

Louise Tickle, The Guardian, Tuesday 7th July 2009

'It's scary, I can tell you'

Young people have been particularly badly hit by the recession, with nearly 1 million of them not in education, employment or training. Louise Tickle talks to the 'Neets'

As the recession bites, young people fresh out of education seem to be among its biggest victims. Nearly 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds now find themselves not in education, employment or training - the so-called Neets.

Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Children's Services and Skills, last month visited City Gateway as part of a national survey inspection of providers working with young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) and has recognised the charity's training services as a national example of best practice.

Third Sector Online, 3 August 2009

Fourteen-year-old Kobi Miller, pictured here with youth worker Randy Ashie, has won a competition organised by social exclusion charity City Gateway to design a pair of shoes.

YOUNGSTERS who have turned their life around and pulled themselves up from unemployment in London's deprived East End have 'graduated' this week with an international law firm.

Thirty who weren’t in jobs or education joined a City Gateway course with mentors and an introduction to the world of work.

They have now graduated onto a Gateway apprenticeship scheme.

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