Tottenham Hotspur pledge to help tackle spiralling Neets crisis

Tottenham Hotspur have pledged to help tackle the spiralling Neets crisis with a flurry of measures that include a university campus at their north London stadium. In a move that Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden has called “further evidence of the leading role football has to play in helping create opportunity for young people”, the Premier League club has committed to creating 150,000 “life-changing” opportunities for people aged five to 25 by the end of the decade through the “Together Tottenham” project. It comes amid societal data revealing that Tottenham Hotspur’s host borough – Haringey – has a child poverty rate of 38 per cent while North Tottenham is listed among the top 10 per cent of the most deprived neighbourhoods in England. City AM revealed earlier this year that the local governing Green council had asked for 0.1 per cent of Tottenham’s revenues (around £500,000 a year) to fund local projects after accusing the club of reneging on pledges over social hou