The number of young people that graduate from upper secondary education has decreased while a growing number of young people are in an outside position in the sense that they neither work or study or have any other known occupation. In addition to this the labour market has gone trough changes, which has brought difficulties for some groups to establish themselves on to the labour market. One of the groups that have been affected by this is the young people. As an answer to the increasing number of young people in an outside position, a new law was introduced on the 1st of July 2005. The law is called (kommunala uppföljningsansvaret) and it stands for the municipality's responsibility to follow up on young people between the age of 16-19 years that is not enrolled in any upper secondary school and that does not have any other known occupation.The purpose of this essay has been to examine how the responsible administrations in Helsingborgs municipality view their responsibility to follow up young people between the ages of 16-19 years and the practical application of the law, and also if they can see any risks with not following up on young people in that age span.

Den ha?r a?r en kvalitativ studie som presenterar resultatet fra?n fem semistrukturerade intervjuer med fem ungdomar mellan a?ldrarna 19-25 som bor i Lulea? kommun och som inte ga?tt fa?rdigt gymnasiet. Syftet med studien a?r att underso?ka ungdomarnas upplevelser av att avsluta sin gymnasieutbildning i fo?rtid, samt ta reda pa? vad som pa?verkat deras beslut att go?ra det. Till grund fo?r analysen ligger Bourdieus begrepp kapital, habitus och kulturell reproducering samt artiklar och tidigare forskning som ses relevanta fo?r studien.Resultatet visar att alla ungdomar, fo?rutom en, genomga?tt en separation mellan fo?ra?ldrarna na?gon ga?ng under barndomen.