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our force participation rate remains at 60%. The official unemployment rate is 32.1%, equating to 7.8 million people. A particularly concerning issue is that many young people are neither participating in the labour market nor expanding their skill sets through education and training. Unemployment rates for youth aged 15-24 and 25-34 reached 59.4% and 39% respectively. Approximately 33% of the 10.2 million young people aged 15-24 were not engaged in employment, education, or training (NEET), marking a 0.6% decrease in Q4 2023 compared to Q4 2022. A significant difference can be seen in the gender-specific unemployment rates which is at 34.4% for women - 4.3 percentage points higher than for men (30.1%). Black women are particularly affected: 38.6% of black women are unemployed in comparison to 35.7% of black men. Additionally, the negative effects of the energy crisis are becoming appare