They could play a capital role at the start of the school year and prevent thousands of young people and minors from being left behind… without a solution. Since 1997, the year of their creation, the second chance schools (E2C) have been working to promote the professional integration of young people who have failed at school, the famous “Neets”, that is to say the 16-25 year olds who are neither in studies nor in employment or in training. According to the statistical service of the Ministry of Labor, the Dares, some 963,000 young people were in such a situation in 2018.
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And with the crisis linked to the coronavirus epidemic, the likelihood that this figure will increase is high. “Everything suggests that young people will be a public very strongly affected by the crisis. In fact, all the devices intended for young people have a role to play. We therefore invite public actors to rely on us to face a need that will be, we imagine, important from the month of September ”, launches the general manager of the E2C network, Cyrille.
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