South Lanarkshire Council

Please note that information regarding institutions, courses and employment sectors have been suppressed where there are less than 5 leavers. In these instances, these leavers have been captured under the ‘other’ categories. In addition, due to rounding techniques some total percentages may not equal 100%.

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Foreword

Welcome to the December 2014 Community Planning Partnership Report. This report provides you and our other local partners with analysis of key information specific to your local authority area including:

- The results of the Initial School Leaver Destination Return (2013/14) - Links to National Training Programme participation and outcomes (2014) - Unemployed seeking analysis (as at 1^stDecember 2014).

We hope this analysis will be useful in helping to inform your thinking around your youth employment strategies and wider Community Planning Partnership outcomes.

We are committed to working with our local partners and sharing information that supports our joint work to secure the best opportunities for people in your area.

We’d be delighted to receive your feedback on this report and suggestions for future report

at [email protected].

Damien Yeates Chief Executive, Skills Development Scotland

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Report Section 1: Initial School Leaver Destination Return 2013/14 Background

Each year Skills Development Scotland (SDS) provides information on the destinations of school leavers from publicly funded schools to the Scottish Government, where a school leaver is classed as a young person of school leaving age who left school during or at the end of the school year, and where the school year is taken to run from 1 August 2013 to 31 July 2014. Initial (autumn) destinations data is no longer published in December by the Scottish Government but the data is combined with the subsequent (spring) follow up, and will next be published by Scottish Government in June 2015. We have agreed to continue to publish the initial destination information in December 2014, to meet the needs of our partners.

The initial destinations information contained in this report is based on the known status of school leavers on the snapshot date of Monday 6th October 2014. The initial destinations have been gathered through a combination of direct follow up of leavers by SDS and shared administrative data from local authorities, colleges, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS).

Leaver data is supplied to the Scottish Government’s Education Analysis Unit (SGEAS) at

an individual level and they match this data to information they hold in order to to report

against the National Indicator “Increase the proportion of young people in learning, training or work”.

Changes in Reporting Methodology

This year sees the introduction by the Scottish Government of Insight, a new online tool for secondary schools and local authorities to benchmark and improve the performance of pupils in the senior phase. Insight will use the school leaver destinations provided by SDS to SGEAS but will use a slightly different methodology for defining which school leavers Insight include within their measured school leaver cohort.

For this transitional year, Skills Development Scotland will continue to use in December the same reporting methodology as used in previous years. By retaining this we are able to report in a consistent method, familiar to users of our reports, and to provide year to year trend analysis on a like for like basis within this publication. In the longer term we will consult with our users on how they consider SDS should proceed in the future.

During this transitional phase it is important partners are aware that when data about leavers is released on Insight in February 2015, and published by the Scottish Government in June 2015, there will be differences in the data, arising from the differences in methodology used to define who is a school leaver. These changes are anticipated to be minor at a national level, although individual schools may see greater variations depending on the effects of the changes made by Insight to their definition of the leaver cohort.

The SLDR cohort is followed up again in March and the Scottish Government use the

results of the March follow up to report against the National Indicator, “Increase the proportion of young people in learning, training or work”. This indicator is based on the

school leavers from publicly funded secondary schools. This excludes schools in the

independent sector and all special schools. The Scottish Government’s Analytical

Services Unit will publish the initial destination results at the same time as the follow up

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results in June 2015, and for that publication they will change their methodology to that used by Insight.

Analysis

The analysis that follows is based on data recorded about leavers on our customer record system. Leavers that were identified as having moved out with Scotland are excluded. This report relates to the 3,359 leavers from publicly funded secondary schools in South

Lanarkshire Council.

Section 1: Overview – Main Findings

 Overall the percentage of leavers entering a positive destinationⁱis 92.3%, a rise of
3.7 percentage points (pp)ⁱⁱin comparison to 2012/13. This is the same as the national average. South Lanarkshire Council is 19th out of 32 local authorities for the percentage of leavers entering a positive destination.

 The percentage of leavers entering higher education (HE) is 40.2% which is 1.6pp

lower than the national average of 38.6%. In comparison to 2012/13 this is a rise within the authority of 4.5pp.

 The percentage of leavers entering further education (FE) has fallen by 0.3pp to
24.2% which is 2.1pp lower than the national average of 26.3%.

 The percentage of leavers entering employment has risen by 1.1pp since 2012/13 to
20.4%. This percentage is 1.3pp below the national average of 21.7%.

 The percentage of leavers entering training has fallen by 2.0pp to 5.4% and is the
5th highest percentage of leavers entering training in Scotland and is 1.3pp above the national average (4.1%).

 The percentage of leavers who are unemployed seekingⁱⁱⁱis 6.5%, 3.0pp lower than in 2012/13. This is 0.2pp higher than the national average.

 School leavers whose destination is unknown^ivis 0.1% this year. This is 0.5pp lower than last year and is 0.2pp lower the national average of 0.3%.

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Table 1: Year on Year destination percentage split. Local Authority & Scotland

South Lanarkshire Council

Scotland

Destinations

2012/13
%
2013/14
%
% point change
2012/13
%
2013/14
%
% point change

Higher Education Further Education Training
35.7 24.5
7.4
19.3
0.3 1.3 9.5 1.4 0.6
40.2 24.2
5.4
20.4
0.4 1.7 6.5 1.0 0.1

4.5

36.5

27.8
5.0
20.4
0.5 1.3 7.1 1.2 0.3
38.6 26.3
4.1
21.7
0.4 1.1 6.3 1.1 0.3
2.1
-0.3 -2.0
1.1 0.1 0.4
-3.0 -0.4 -0.5
-1.5 -0.9
1.3
-0.1 -0.2 -0.8 -0.1
0.0
Employment Voluntary Work Activity Agreement Unemployed Seeking Unemployed Not Seeking Unknown

Positive Destinations Total Leavers

88.6

92.3

3.7

91.4

92.3

0.9

3,456

3,359

52,792

51,876

Graph 2: Local Authority Comparison to Scotland

45%

South Lanarkshire

Scotland

40.2%
38.6%

40%

35% 30%

25%

20% 15% 10%

5%

26.3%
24.2%
21.7%
20.4%

6.5%

6.3%

5.4%
4.1%

1.7%

1.1%

1.0%

0.4% 0.4%

0.3%

0.1%
0%

Higher

Education

Further

Education

Training

Employed

Voluntary

Work

Activity

Agreements

Unemployed Unemployed Unknown

Seeking Not Seeking

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Section 1.1 - Annual Trends

Table 3: Year on Year Destination Split

Activity Agreement
(%)
U/E Seeking
(%)
U/E NOT Seeking
(%)
Not Known
(%)
Training
(%)
Employed
(%)
Voluntary Work (%)

Year

Total

HE (%)

FE (%)

2004/05 3,373 2005/06 3,263 2006/07 3,449 2007/08 3,612 2008/09 3,242 2009/10 3,407 2010/11 3,559 2011/12 2,881 2012/13 3,456 2013/14 3,359
34.7 32.5 31.5 33.9 38.1 38.0 37.0 43.5 35.7 40.2
18.3 18.6 19.3 21.1 22.3 22.7 24.0 21.6 24.5 24.2
6.0 6.6 7.2 6.7 8.2 7.6 6.4 5.7 7.4 5.4

26.4

10.6

11.3 11.4
9.1
11.1 12.4 11.1
8.6

3.6

0.5

28.6 28.4 26.4 17.8 17.6 19.2 18.2 19.3 20.4
1.1 0.9 1.4 1.5 0.9 1.3 1.2 1.4 1.0
1.3 1.0 1.2 0.7 0.6 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.1
0.2 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4
0.6 0.8 1.3 1.7
9.5 6.5

Graph 4: Year on Year Positive/Other Destination Trend

100%

14.7%

13.7%

13.3%

11.8%

13.3%

13.8%

12.6%

10.2%

11.4%

7.7%