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Support for vulnerable teens

New data shows many teenagers are not receiving support. These young people, known as 'Phantom NEETS', are not in education, employment, or training. The data highlights the need for councils to identify and help these vulnerable teenagers. Councils will use this information to provide targeted support and ensure these young people receive the help they need.

What this means if you're looking for council work

GovJobs is tracking 3,980 open council vacancies today, 1,484 of them added in the past seven days. Across the adverts that publish a salary, the median advertised starting figure is £36,568.

The organisations recruiting most heavily right now are City of Edinburgh Council (180), Lancashire County Council (149), Surrey County Council (122) and Leicestershire County Council (118).

Geographically the roles cluster in West Midlands (699), North West (658), North East (523), South East (370).

Training and apprenticeship routes are advertised alongside standard vacancies rather than separately, and often close earlier because intakes are fixed to a start date. Apply as early in the window as you can.

Worth reading first: Council pay grades and NJC pay scales explained and How to get a job in local government.

These figures are counted from the GovJobs index at the time you loaded this page, not from official statistics, and they change daily. They are our own analysis and are not part of the announcement summarised above.

Summarised by GovJobs from GOV.UK, under the Open Government Licence (OGL v3). Drafted with AI from the official source material.

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