Fair Start Scotland: evaluation report 4 - year 3 overview

Footnotes

1. It should be noted that there was an increase in the proportion of missing demographic information during Year 3 and therefore results should be treated with a degree of caution.

2. Reported under pseudonyms.

3. Please note that for the Year 3 telephone survey the new sample of FSS participants was drawn from a cohort of participants who joined FSS between Jan - Dec 2020. The longitudinal sample was drawn from those who joined the service between Jan - Dec 2019 and between Apr - Dec 2018. Further details on the telephone survey methodology can be found in Appendix 1: Evaluation methodology.

4. Early leavers are defined as those who leave FSS before the end of the pre-employment support period without having achieved a job outcome.

5. Third party referrals relate to referrals from outwith JCP.

6. "Every Child, Every Chance tackling child poverty delivery plan 2018-2022" identified six 'priority families', family types that have a higher than average risk of child poverty: lone parent families; families which include a disabled adult or child; larger families; minority ethnic families; families with a child under one year old; families where the mother is under 25.

7. Based on data from Scotland's Devolved Employment Services: statistical summary, 25th August 2021 (Publication Tables August 2021, Table 1): https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-devolved-employment-services-statistical-summary-11/; please note that these values refer to the proportion or those who were referred to FSS in the third year of FSS delivery and then went on to start on FSS. Some individuals who were referred during Year 3 did not begin engagement with the service until Year 4.

8. Please note that for the year 3 telephone survey the new sample of FSS participants was drawn from a cohort of participants who joined FSS between Jan - Dec 2020. The longitudinal sample was drawn from those who joined the service between Jan - Dec 2019 and between Apr - Dec 2018. Further details on the telephone survey methodology can be found in Appendix 1: Evaluation methodology.

9. Data on priority family groups was not collected in the first wave of the telephone survey.

10. This included FSS participants who belonged to one or more of the following groups: lone parents, refugees, those with convictions, those who are limited a lot by a health condition, ethnic minority participants, those who are care experienced.

11. Please note that the number of early leavers among those who joined the FSS service in the third year of its delivery may change as the period where a person could leave early has not come to an end for some participants. The final figure will be available in the second half of 2022.

12. Please see No One Left Behind: Delivery Plan for more details on NOLB.

13. Due to small base sizes it is not possible to comment on differences between 2018, 2019 and 2020 cohorts

14. Please note that results on the usefulness of support types have low bases sizes

15. Please note that due to the low base size it was not possible to carry out comparisons for other reported barriers

16. Please note here that the employment rates reported here refer to different time periods, e.g. near final figures for job starts were available up to the end of June 2020 (April - June 2020 quarter), near final figures for 3 month job outcomes were available up to the end of March 2020 (January - March 2020 quarter) at the time of writing this report.

17. Examples of elementary occupations include roles such as farm workers, construction labourers and cleaners. More details can be found here: ONS Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Hierarchy (onsdigital.github.io)

18. The National Living Wage for those aged 25 and above was £8.72 at the time of the survey, it has since risen to £8.91 and now applies to all those aged 23 and over (the change took place in April 2021)

19. Fujiwara, D., 2010. The Department for Work and Pensions Social Cost-Benefit Analysis framework. Working Paper no. 86. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/214384/WP86.pdf

20. Public finance perspective includes increase in tax revenue and reduction in healthcare costs as benefits and programme expenditure as cost. Participants' perspective includes increase in wage as a benefit and reduction in UC, increased tax, and increased travel and childcare costs as costs. Society's perspective includes increase in output and reduction in healthcare and operational costs as benefits and programme expenditure and societal impacts from increased travel as costs.

21. QALYs act as a measure of disease burden quantifying both the quantity and quality of life lived, they are used in economic evaluations to determine the impacts of an intervention on health and wellbeing. Further information can be found here: Glossary | NICE

22. Distributional effects cover the higher welfare achieved via distribution of public finances, further details of which can be found in the FSS Economic Evaluation report.

23. FSS Providers are paid for each sustained job outcome – where employment is sustained for 13 out of 16 weeks, 26 out of 30 weeks and 52 out of 60 weeks.

24. DWP 2020. The Work Programme: A quantitative impact assessment: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/937682/work-programme-quantitative-impact-assessment.pdf

25. Growing the economy: Inclusive growth - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

26. Derived from Fair Start Scotland - annual report: year one - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)