Data profiling to find Neets

This is from Capita One who offer what they call a first class IT management system. "For Barnsley Council, the early identification of children at risk of becoming Neet (Not in employment, education or training) was an important but laborious task. Using the One Child Profiling Tool, the authority can now gather all of the information needed to identify these vulnerable children in about an hour."

"Previously, this important early intervention work required various staff members and agencies to pull together information from multiple databases. The job was so huge that it could only be tackled annually."

http://www.capita-one.co.uk/our-stories/barnsley-council-case-study

There are assurances from the Information Commissioner`s Office that the Data Protection Act should not be seen as a barrier to the sensible use of personal information. "Organisations have a statutory duty to help young people in their area.. Collecting and analysing the information available to deliver and plan these services makes clear sense, though where profiling is being carried out it`s vital that care is taken to protect young people`s information."

It`s easy to see how this is working. Just give yourself a statutory duty to interfere, and you have a license to disregard the Data Protection Act.

As the Found Generation states: "Clearly, the most significant direct reason for the current rate of youth unemployment is the lack of jobs available. This is, however, not just a short-term problem due to the economic crisis or Eurozone crisis. While there is a short term lack of jobs, successive governments have not done enough to encourage or stimulate job creation, particularly in the private sector."

http://thefoundgeneration.co.uk/our-campaigns/jobs/

I would question the idea that there is a short term lack of jobs - we`re due another bank crisis - but yes, the problem for youth is the lack of jobs. Rather than owning up to the failure of the economic system and the government, children and young people are being data stripped and targeted as `vulnerable.` That`s abusive. They are no more vulnerable than young people of previous generations, many of whom, walked straight from school into jobs, but that is because the jobs were there.

UPDATE 10.11.2014
As well as another forecasted bank crisis there is also the problem of advances in technology.

See the Telegraph and how ten million British jobs could be taken over by computers and robots over the next 20 years, wiping out more than one in three roles. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/11219688/Ten-million-jobs-at-risk-from-advancing-technology.html