Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms are in place to monitor young people to ensure that they stay in some form of education or training until their 18th birthday.

Local authorities have a statutory duty under Section 68 of the Education and Skills Act 2008 to encourage, enable or assist young people’s participation in education or training. Statutory guidance[1] that underpins this duty directs local authorities to collect information to identify young people who are not participating, or who are at risk of not doing so, and to target their resources on those who need them most.

[1] www.gov.uk/government/publications/participation-of-young-people-education-employment-and-training.