Fair Start Scotland, Work First Scotland and Work Able Scotland: statistical summary November 2018

Work Able Scotland Participants

Information about Work Able Scotland participants is presented in this section for people who started on the service, and those who had achieved short job outcomes at 28 September 2018. The information is derived directly from data collected by WAS service providers. Information on those achieving sustained job outcomes (n=47) is not included as breakdowns would be disclosive. Some caution is advised in interpreting findings on short job outcomes (n=125) relative to starts (n=1,095), due to the disparity in size of groups. The statistics are derived from information collected for equalities monitoring purposes. All information is self-reported.

Figure 11: Work Able Scotland participants achieving short job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by age (Figure 11A) and gender (Figure 11B)

Table 17: Work Able Scotland participants achieving short job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by age (Table 17A) and gender (Table 17B)

Table 17A: WAS participants achieving short job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by age
Age Group[16]	Total	% by age group
18-24	11	8.8
25-34	34	27.2
35-49	48	38.4
50-64	32	25.6
Total	125	100

Table 17B: WAS participants achieving short job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by gender
Gender	Total	% by gender
Female	57	45.6
Male	68	54.4
Total	125	100

Table 18: Work Able Scotland participants, by age and gender

Table 18: WAS participants, by age and gender
Age Group[17]	Female	Male	% by age group	Total
18-24	48	76	11.3	124
25-34	99	157	23.4	256
35-49	168	211	34.6	379
50-64	161	175	30.7	336
% by gender	43.5	56.5	100
Total	476	619		1,095

Figure 11A and Table 17A show that the proportion of participants in each age group who achieved short job outcomes is broadly similar to those who joined the service. 64% of participants achieving short job outcomes were aged 35 or over, which is similar to those joining the service in the same age group (65%, Table 18). However, a higher proportion of participants in the 25-34 age group (27%) achieved job outcomes, than those that started on the service (23%); whilst the proportion of 50-64 year olds achieving short job outcomes (26%) was less than those who joined WAS (31%). Females accounted for 46% of those achieving short job outcomes (Figure 11B, Table 17B), and 44% of all those joining the service.

Figure 12: Type of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by Work Able Scotland participants achieving short job outcomes, at 28 September 2018

Table 19: Type of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by Work Able Scotland participants achieving short job outcomes, at 28 September 2018

Table 19: Type of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by WAS participants achieving short job outcomes, at 28 September 2018
Type of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty	Number of all types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported	% all types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported
Mental health	76	46.3
Other disability, impairment or medical condition	24	14.6
Long standing illness	19	11.6
Learning difficulty	18	11
Physical impairment/mobility	12	7.3
Social/communication	10	6.1
Deaf/hearing impairment; Visual impairment[17]	5	3
Total	164[11]	100[6]

Table 20: Type of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by Work Able Scotland participants

Table 20: Type of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by WAS participants
Type of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty	Number of all types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported	% of all types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported
Mental health	698	46.2
Other disability, impairment or medical condition	209	13.8
Long standing illness	167	11.1
Physical impairment/mobility	163	10.8
Learning difficulty	122	8.1
Social/communication	79	5.2
Deaf/hearing impairment	42	2.8
Visual impairment	30	2.0
Total	1,510[12]	100

Figure 12 and Table 19 show that around 46% of all types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by those achieving short job outcomes were mental health conditions. This is the same as the proportion of mental health conditions reported by those that joined the service (46%; Table 20). Other disabilities, impairments or medical conditions accounted for about 15% of all types that were reported by individuals achieving short job outcomes, compared with 14% reported by those that started on WAS.

Around 12% of all types of condition reported by those achieving short job outcomes were long standing illnesses; similar to those reported by starts (11%). A learning difficulty accounted for 11% of all types of condition reported by those achieving short job outcomes; this was higher than the proportion of those who started on the service reporting a learning difficulty (8%). Conversely, physical impairments accounted for 7% of all types of condition reported by those achieving short job outcomes but 11% of all types of condition reported by those joining WAS.

Figure 13: Number of types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by Work Able Scotland participants achieving short job outcomes, at
28 September 2018

Table 21: Number of types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by Work Able Scotland participants achieving short job outcomes, at
28 September 2018

Table 21: Number of types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by WAS participants achieving short job outcomes, at 28 September 2018
Number of types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty	Number of WAS participants	% of WAS participants
1	75	60
2	30	24
3 or more	8	6.4
Unknown	12	9.6
Total	125	100

Table 22: Number of types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by Work Able Scotland participants

Table 22: Number of types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty reported by WAS participants
Number of types of impairment / health condition / learning difficulty	Number of WAS participants	% of WAS participants
1	653	59.6
2	274	25
3 or more	95	8.7
Unknown	73	6.7
Total	1,095	100

Figure 13 and Table 21 show that whilst the majority (60%) of WAS participants that achieved short job outcomes reported having one type of long-term health impairment / health condition / learning difficulty, just under a third (30%) reported having 2 or more. This is broadly in line with the number of conditions reported by individuals joining the service (Table 22).

Table 23: Work Able Scotland participants achieving short job outcomes at
28 September 2018, by ethnic group

Table 23: WAS participants achieving short job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by ethnic group
Ethnic group	Number of WAS participants	% of WAS participants
White	120	96
Minority ethnic[8]	5	4
Total	125	100

Table 24: Work Able Scotland participants, by ethnic group

Table 24: WAS participants, by ethnic group
Ethnic group	Number of WAS participants	% of WAS participants
White	1,070	97.7
Minority ethnic[8]	23	2.1
Unknown	2	0.2
Total	1,095	100

Table 23 shows that 4% of participants who achieved short job outcomes reported being from minority ethnic groups. This is higher than that reported by individuals joining the service (2%; Table 24).