Transitional employment services - phase 2: evaluation

Footnotes

1. https://www.gov.scot/publications/evaluation-scottish-transitional-employment-services-interim-report-august-2018/

2. Survey waves 1 and 2 are not longitudinal but are drawn from the same cohort of service participants and so it is possible to compare responses between the two waves to some extent.

3. Scottish Government, No one left behind: Review of Employability Services, December 2018.

4. This is based on the phone survey results of self-reported status and not officially produced statistics or provider data.

5. Again, this is also based on the phone survey results of self-reported status and not officially produced statistics or provider data.

6. A Fairer Scotland for Disabled People: employment action plan, Scottish Government, December 2018.

7. No One Left Behind: Review of Employability Services, The Scottish Government, December 2018.

8. See: Evaluation of Scottish transitional employment services: interim report August 2018. Scottish Government. https://www.gov.scot/publications/evaluation-scottish-transitional-employment-services-interim-report-august-2018/

9. It is important to recognise that the surveys were not designed as formal longitudinal research (this would have required a much larger number of interviews in wave 1). Nevertheless, the survey responses at wave 1 and wave 2 represent the views of the same cohort of 2,000 customers.

10. There is a trade-off here between gaining access to a wider group of potential customers but not being able to fully capture their circumstances. Given the absence of other viable routes to researching the views of those 'not yet attracted by the current employability offer' and after discussions with Scottish Government we felt that this was a worthwhile approach.

11. Current and former customers of the WFS and WAS services completed a telephone interview between 26th November 2018 and 31st January 2019, about their experience of the service, its outcomes and their current situation. All customers initially signed up to the services between 1st April and 31st October 2017. The interviews took place just under 12 months after the original wave 1 survey.

12. For example, at the time of the wave 1 fieldwork no customer would have reached the limit of their participation on WAS (12 months), etc.

13. The introduction of Universal Credit has made this very dependent on the particular circumstances of the individual claimant.

14. A Fairer Scotland for Disabled People: employment action plan, Scottish Government, December 2018.

15. Scotland's Devolved Employment Services, WFS 2019 Quarter 2, undated, Table 4 p10 and SDS CTS data from 1 November 2018, respectively.