Scotland's Devolved Employment Services statistics

Statistical publications for Fair Start Scotland (FSS) and the No One Left Behind strategic approach to employability delivery.

Background and Methodology and Improvement Papers

Papers providing more detail on the background to Scotland's Devolved Employment Services statistical collections, including definitions, methodology for calculations, data quality and improvement papers documenting important changes.

Please note, for specific data quality issues related to No One Left Behind publications prior to the May 2025 publication, please see the background and methodology papers contained within the supporting documents section for each publication. From May 2025, specific data quality issues for No One Left Behind can be found within the main publication report.

Scotland's Devolved Employment Services quarterly publications: Separate FSS and No One Left Behind statistical publications

Statistics for Fair Start Scotland (FSS), which launched in April 2018, and No One Left behind, which launched in April 2019. Reports for FSS and No One Left Behind are seperated due to FSS closing to new referrals on the 31st March 2024.

Publications including previous employability programmes

These publications include statistics for employability services that have come to an end. In addition to Fair Start Scotland (FSS), programmes that are included in these publications are Work First Scotland (WFS), which launched in April 2017 and received referrals until March 2018, Work Able Scotland (WAS), which launched in April 2017 and received referrals until March 2018, and the Health and Work Support pilot (HAWS), which launched in June 2018 and received referrals until March 2020.

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