Scotland's Devolved Employment Services: statistical summary February 2021

Footnotes

1. Employment support programme: equality impact assessment - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2. This total includes 752 people who were on Activity Agreements the previous year.

3. Coronavirus and the latest indicators for the UK economy and society - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

4. The start rate for the most recent quarter is 70% so far, but this is expected to rise by a few percentage points as it has done previously, as not everyone referred during that period has had sufficient time to join FSS.

5. Fair Start Scotland - evaluation report 3: year two – overview - November 2020 https://www.gov.scot/publications/fair-start-scotland-evaluation-report-3-overview-year-two/

6. Fair Start Scotland evaluation report 2: overview of year one - November 2019 http://www.gov.scot/publications/fair-start-scotland-evaluation-report-2-overview-year-1-november-2019/

7. Since the COVID-19 lockdown FSS is delivered over the phone or online, with face-to-face interaction paused. This has impacted the collection of equalities data. We are working with FSS service providers to ensure response rates are maximised going forward. For more information, see the Data Quality section in the Background Information.

8. In July – September there was a large increase in the proportion of unknown data, so it is not possible to reliably report on the proportion of disabled people for this quarter.

9. The early leaver rate is calculated for the 19,009 people who joined FSS from April 2018 – December 2019 as we have the most complete data.

10. LTHC is an abbreviation of Long-Term Health Condition.

11. Coronavirus and the latest indicators for the UK economy and society - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

12. Data from the Total Rates columns of Table 4 in the supplementary tables.

13. LTHC is an abbreviation of Long-Term Health Condition.

14. The job start rate is calculated for the 19,009 people who joined FSS from April 2018 – December 2019 as we have the most complete data.

15. The 3 month job outcome rate is calculated for the 16,141 people who joined FSS from April 2018 – September 2019 as we have the most complete data.

16. The 6 month job outcome rate is calculated for the 13,069 people who joined FSS from April 2018 – June 2019 as we have the most complete data.

17. The 12 month job outcome rate is calculated for the 7,032 people who joined FSS from April 2018 – December 2018 as we have the most complete data.

18. This total includes 752 young people who were participating in Activity Agreements the previous year. Activity agreements - mygov.scot

19. Disability reported in context of being a barrier to work. See background section for more information.

20. Employment outcome totals reported up to 31 December 2020, for those who entered employment during the period 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020.

21. Fair Start Scotland evaluation report 2: local area case studies - November 2019 www.gov.scot/publications/fair-start-scotland-evaluation-report-2-local-area-case-studies-year-1-november-2019/