16+ Learning Choices supporting all young people into positive and sustained destinations

1. 16+ Learning Choices supporting all young people into positive and sustained destinations Partnership Information National Network Victoria Quay, 7th February 2011

2. What is Partnership Information? Objective: De-clutter the data landscape

3. National Statistics • School Leaver Destination Return (SLDR) • - 2006/2007 86.7% • - 2007/2008 86.3% • - 2008/2009 85.6% • - 2009/2010 86.8% • Higher Education, Further Education and Training have all seen • increases in young people within these initial destinations over the • last three years. • Employment is 10% lower than it was four years ago. • This year’s school staying on rate has increased by approximately 6000.

4. 16+LC Winter 2008 • 16+ Learning Choices is in the phase of early implementation; • 14 local authorities did not return any data (56% data return); • 7,836 eligible young people were targeted;

5. 16+LC Winter 2008 and 2009 • 16+ Learning Choices is in the phase of early implementation; • 14 local authorities did not return any data (56% data return); • 7,836 eligible young people were targeted; • 16+ Learning Choices remains in the phase of early implementation; • 13 local authorities did not return any data (59% data return); • 24,623 eligible young people were targeted;

6. 16+LC Winter 2010 • 16+ Learning Choices is now a universal offer for all young people • who are entering or within the Senior Phase; • In winter 2010, there where 86,757 young people eligible for an offer • of post-16 learning; • 80,956 (or 93%) stayed on at school; • 5,792 school leavers were identified of which 3,483 (or 60%) received • a confirmed offer by January; • SDS continues to work with those 2,310 young people who do not yet • have a confirmed offer – some could be awaiting the outcome of an • application or are currently Unemployed and NOT Seeking.

7. 16+LC Winter 2008 to 2010

8. What is Partnership Information? • MCMC and 16+LC Data are integral components which produce • Partnership Information; • Individual data (Intended Destinations) to inform personal • support, intervention and IAG; • Local data to inform planning and delivery; • Aggregated data to inform national monitoring, planning and statistics; • Analysis of the data – what does it tell us? Performance? • Focus on Care Leavers, Looked After Young People and ASN • 16+LC Data Hub – National Developments and local events

9. Partnership Information - Priorities • Support and challenge SDS, local authorities and Scotland’s Colleges • through implementation of the 16+LC Data Hub – legal framework – • technical articulation – governance; • Provide policy advice and guidance to our partners and stakeholders • (including articulation within Scottish Government); • Work closely with SDS to design and develop a suite of reports; • Establish a set of performance indicators aligned to the CIS; • Develop our national capacity to perform analysis of data - evaluation; • Promote a culture of collaboration – • Community of Practice for Partnership Information.

10. Lee Dunn The Scottish Government lee.dunn@scotland.gsi.gov.uk Scott Gray The Scottish Government scott.gray@scotland.gsi.gov.uk