Unemployment: Young People

(asked on 4th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the increasing number of 16 to 18 year olds whose destinations are unknown in her Department's statistics on 16 to 18 year olds not in education, employment or training.


Answered by
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Nick Boles
This question was answered on 11th November 2014

Local authorities are responsible for tracking young people’s participation in education and training. They may record young people as ‘destination not known’ for a number of reasons. It may be that a local authority does not have effective information sharing arrangements with schools and colleges, or because young people have left their last known address and cannot be contacted.

The Department for Education publishes annual local level data showing the proportion of 16 to 18 year olds whose destination was not known, alongside statistics on 16 to 18 year olds not in education, employment or training. The proportion of 16 to 18 year olds whose destination was not known across England as a whole fell from 10.8% at the end of 2012 to 9.2% at the end of 2013.

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