Kickstart Scheme
(asked on 9th February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals (a) were referred to, (b) participated in and (c) had a job outcome from the Kickstart programme in each financial year it was offered.
As of 10 February 2023, over 163,000 Kickstart jobs had been started by young people. Below is a table listing the number of individuals who were referred to a Kickstart job, i.e. invited to consider applying to a role, and the number of individuals who started a Kickstart job.
An individual may have been referred to or started a Kickstart job more than once and across different years. Individuals may have commenced a role but moved for personal, local or employer reasons. This includes joining the wider labour market.
As a result, the total number of individuals who started a Kickstart job differs from the total number of Kickstart jobs that were overall started by young people, see table below.
As of 10 February 2023, around 7 in 10 young people were in paid employment 10 months after starting their Kickstart job.
Table 1: Individual referred to a Kickstart job & individuals who started a Kickstart job, for the financial years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022. The figures used are correct as of the 10 February 2023
Financial year | Number of referrals to Kickstart Jobs | Individuals referred to a Kickstart job | Number of Kickstart Jobs started | Individuals who started a Kickstart job |
2020/2021 | 485,000 | 166,000 | 9,000 | 9,000 |
2021/2022 | 2,485,000 | 351,000 | 154,000 | 145,000 |
Total | 2,969,000 | 429,000 | 163,000 | 152,000 |
- The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but is provided in the interests of transparency.
- Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000.
- An individual young person may have been referred or started a Kickstart job more than once and in multiple years. Therefore, where the table is counting individuals, individuals will be counted in each year they are referred/start a Kickstart job, however will only be counted in the total once.
- In this context a referral means a work coach has highlighted a Kickstart job to a claimant as an opportunity for them to consider. Not all individuals referred to a Kickstart job applied for a Kickstart job. Several young people could be referred to each job and several young people could apply for each job, therefore the number of individuals referred to a Kickstart job differs from the number of individuals who started a Kickstart job.
- Although care was taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system, which has been developed quickly.