Scotland's Devolved Employment Services: Fair Start Scotland Statistical Summary October 2024

This report presents statistics for Scotland’s Devolved Employment Services: Fair Start Scotland.

FSS is an employability support service, launched in April 2018, which aims to help unemployed people into sustainable employment. FSS closed to new referrals on the 31st March 2024. Official statistics with updates to the employment outcomes are presented to the most recent quarter of April to June 2024. Following the end of referrals to FSS, Scottish Government funded employability provision is now commissioned through Local Employability Partnerships, under the No One Left Behind approach (Scotland's Devolved Employment Services statistics - opens in a new window).

Further detailed statistics are published in accompanying tables alongside the report. Please refer to the supplementary Background and Methodology Report for more details on FSS data.

Official Statistics

Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (Access the Code of Practice – opens in a new window) that all producers of official statistics should adhere to. The statistics presented for FSS are Official Statistics.

You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards by emailing: employabilitydata@gov.scot. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing: regulation@statistics.gov.uk.

Data Developments in this Edition

For the first time, this publication presents the following data:

• Breakdowns by trans status