Work First Scotland and Work Able Scotland: statistical summary August 2018

Footnotes

1. Number of WFS job starts reported by WFS service providers, as at 29 June 2018

2. Numbers of WFS referrals, starts and job outcomes reported through the DWP Provider Referrals and Payments ( PRaP) system. See Technical Annex for details.

3. See Technical Annex for job outcome definitions.

4. Number of WAS referrals and job starts reported by WAS service providers. Number of WAS starts and job outcomes recorded on, and reported by SDS’ Corporate Training System. See Technical Annex for details.

5. Total number of starts reflects the outcomes of referrals made during the period 3 April 2017 to 9 March 2018, including a small number of people who started in April 2018. See Technical Annex for details.

6. Total number of starts reflects the outcomes of referrals made during the period 3 April 2017 to 9 March 2018. All starts were recorded by 30 March 2018. See Technical Annex for details.

7. Figures in brackets are as at 29 June 2018

8. Figures may not sum to 100 due to rounding

9. More than one type of long-term health condition can be recorded for an individual, hence the totals sum to more than the total number of participants.

10. Includes Mixed or multiple ethnic groups, Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British, African, Caribbean or Black and Other ethnic groups

11. The length of WAS short job outcomes reflects the complex barriers of the WAS participant group

12. 16 and 17 year olds are not eligible for WAS

13. ‘Social communication’, ‘Deaf / hearing impairment’ and ‘Visual impairment’ categories have been combined in this table, as the numbers of each individual category in these data are small. This combination does not imply any similarity in the nature of categories and no inferences should be made on the basis of this combination.