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Thank you!: We would like to say a big thank you for all the help you have given to this study. To date there have been  7 waves of the Next steps study and it’s been hugely successful. We spoke to over 8,500 of you between April and October 2010.
All studies run by the Department for Education are voluntary and we rely on your help to make them a success.

This website is for young people who have been involved in the Next Steps Study, undertaken by the Department for Education.

The study started in 2004 when the Department for Education (then known as the Department for Education and Skills) started to track over 15,000 young people from across England. Up to 2010, 8,682 young people were still involved in the study and have been interviewed up to seven times. The data you have provided has given the Department for Education, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Work and Pensions new and unique insights into your lives so we can better understand how we can improve things for the future.

The Department for Education are currently reviewing the study, along with the Economic and Social Research Council (who are the UK’s leading agency for research funding and training in economic and social sciences, see www.esrc.ac.uk for more information) to see how best the study can continue within new budgets.

This does not mean it is the end of Next Steps, just this phase. There are many researchers across Government and beyond who are very interested in your activities no matter what you are doing.  

This website has been created so you can:

• Find out more about the reasons why the study was set up
• Find out what we have been doing with the things you’ve told us
• Keep you informed about what happens with the study
• Get in touch if there is anything you want to know
• Get in touch if your contact details have changed