30 April 2019
Researchers:
Dr Sharon Tabberer, Arc Research and Consultancy Ltd
Pete Nelson, Department of Social Work Social Care and Community Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
Vanessa Hoyland-Powell, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council,
Andrew Maddison, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Key findings
- Many young people described as NEET are drinking little or no alcohol and drinking plays no part in their lives.
- Experimental drinking starts at a young age and can include risky and harmful behaviour but has been grown out of by the age of 17.
- Social media plays little part of NEET young people’s lives and acts to discourage drinking.
- Park and street drinking is for those in their early teens. When those in their later teens do drink it is at home or with those they trust at friends’ houses.
