Fair Start Scotland, Work First Scotland and Work Able Scotland: statistical summary November 2018

Work First Scotland Participants

Information in the following section is presented for people who started on the service during the period 3 April 2017 and 30 March 2018, and those who had achieved short and sustained job outcomes, as at 28 September 2018. This information is derived directly from data collected by WFS service providers. The total numbers of WFS participants achieving short (1,128) and sustained (792) job outcomes in this section differ slightly from those in the flow diagram on page 7 (1,133 for short, and 795 for sustained job outcomes) because they are derived from separate administrative systems. Please see the Technical Annex for details.

The statistics on type of long-term health condition are derived from information collected by service providers for service delivery purposes, whilst those on age, gender and ethnic group are derived from information collected for equalities monitoring purposes. All information is self-reported.

Figure 7: Work First Scotland participants achieving short (Figure 7A) and sustained (Figure 7B) job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by age and gender

Table 8: Work First Scotland participants achieving short (Table 8A) and sustained (Table 8B) job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by age and gender

Table 8A: WFS participants achieving short job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by age and gender
Age Group	Female	Male	Unknown	% by age group	Total
16-24	90	162	4	22.7	256
25-34	102	168	0	23.9	270
35-49	144	218	2	32.3	364
50-65+	91	143	2	20.9	236
Unknown	1	1	0	0.2	2
% by gender	37.9	61.3	0.7	100
Total	428	692	8		1,128

Table 8B: WFS participants achieving sustained job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by age and gender
Age Group	Female	Male	Unknown	% by age group	Total
16-24	54	106	1	20.3	161
25-34	76	112	0	23.7	188
35-49	111	149	2	33.1	262
50-65+	62	115	2	22.6	179
Unknown	1	1	0	0.3	2
% by gender	38.4	61.0	0.6	100
Total	304	483	5		792

Table 9: Work First Scotland participants, by age and gender

Table 9: WFS participants, by age and gender
Age Group	Female	Male	Unknown	% by age group	Total
16-24	281	521	5	18.2	807
25-34	339	632	0	21.9	971
35-49	513	871	4	31.3	1,388
50-65+	460	788	2	28.2	1,250
Unknown	8	8	0	0.4	16
% by gender	36.1	63.6	0.2	100
Total	1,601	2,820	11		4,432

Figures 7A and 7B, alongside Tables 8A and 8B, show that whilst the proportion of participants in each age group who achieved both short and sustained job outcomes is broadly similar to those who joined the service, higher proportions of participants aged under 35 achieved short (47%), and sustained (44%) job outcomes, compared to those in the same age group who joined the service (40%, Table 9). Conversely, lower proportions of those in the older age groups (35 or over) achieved short (53%) and sustained (56%) job outcomes compared to those who joined the service (60%). Females accounted for over a third of all those achieving short or sustained job outcomes, and those joining the service.

Figure 8: Work First Scotland participants achieving short (Figure 8A) and sustained (Figure 8B) job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by type of long-term health condition

Table 10: Type of long-term health conditions reported by Work First Scotland participants achieving short and sustained job outcomes, at 28 September 2018

Table 10: Type of long-term health condition reported by WFS participants achieving short and sustained job outcomes, at 28 September 2018
	Short job outcomes		Sustained job outcomes
Type of long-term health condition	Number of all types of condition reported	% of all types of condition reported	Number of all types of condition reported	% of all types of condition reported
Mental health condition	531	37.4	375	37.6
Long-term illness, disease or condition	246	17.3	164	16.4
Physical disability	225	15.8	160	16
Other Condition	152	10.7	109	10.9
Learning difficulty (for example, dyslexia)	125	8.8	81	8.1
Developmental disorder (for example, Autism Spectrum Disorder or Asperger's Syndrome)	44	3.1	32	3.2
Blindness or partial sight loss	34	2.4	31	3.1
Deafness or partial hearing loss	33	2.3	28	2.8
Learning disability (for example, Down’s Syndrome)	30	2.1	18	1.8
Total	1,420[11]	100[6]	998[11]	100[6]

Table 11: Type of long-term health condition reported by Work First Scotland participants

Table 11: Type of long-term health conditions reported by WFS participants
Type of long-term health condition	Number of all types of condition reported	% of all types of condition reported
Mental health condition	1,948	32.8
Long-term illness, disease or condition	1,036	17.4
Physical disability	1,031	17.3
Other condition	642	10.8
Learning difficulty (for example, dyslexia)	570	9.6
Deafness or partial hearing loss	207	3.5
Developmental disorder (for example, Autism Spectrum Disorder or Asperger's Syndrome)	176	3.0
Blindness or partial sight loss	171	2.9
Learning disability (for example, Down’s Syndrome)	164	2.8
Total	5,945[12]	100[6]

Figures 8A and 8B, alongside Tables 10 and 11, show that over a third of all types of condition reported by participants achieving short (37%) and sustained (38%) job outcomes were mental health conditions, and this is higher than the proportion reported by those joining the service (33%). Overall, the distribution of types of long-term health conditions was broadly similar for those achieving short and sustained outcomes, and for those joining the service. Long-term illnesses, diseases or conditions accounted for around 17% and 16% of all types of conditions reported by participants who achieved short and sustained job outcomes, respectively, with physical disabilities accounting for similar proportions. A learning difficulty accounted for 9% and 8% of all types of conditions reported for those achieving short and sustained outcomes, respectively, and 10% for those joining WFS.

Figure 9: Number of types of long-term health condition reported by Work First Scotland participants achieving short (Figure 9A) and sustained (Figure 9B) job outcomes, at 28 September 2018

Table 12: Number of types of long-term health condition reported by Work First Scotland participants achieving short and sustained job outcomes, at 28 September 2018

Table 12: Number of types of long-term health condition reported by WFS participants achieving short and sustained job outcomes, at 28 September 2018
	Short job outcomes		Sustained job outcomes
Number of types of long-term health condition	Number of WFS participants	% of WFS participants	Number of WFS participants	% of WFS participants
1	880	78	625	78.9
2	208	18.4	130	16.4
3 or more	39	3.5	36	4.5
Unknown	1	0.1	1	0.1
Total	1,128	100	792	100[6]

Table 13: Number of types of long-term health condition reported by Work First Scotland participants

Table 13: Number of types of long-term health condition reported by WFS participants
Number of types of long-term health condition	Number of WFS participants	% of WFS participants
1	3,215	72.5
2	945	21.3
3 or more	266	6.0
Unknown	6	0.1
Total	4,432	100[6]

Figures 9A and 9B, together with Table 12, show that more than three quarters of participants achieving short (78%) and sustained (79%) job outcomes reported having one long-term health condition, and this is higher than the proportion of individuals joining the service with one condition (73%, Table 13). Whilst 27% of those joining the service reported having 2 or more conditions, lower proportions of those with 2 or more conditions achieved short (22%) and sustained (21%) job outcomes.

Table 14: Work First Scotland participants achieving short and sustained job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by ethnic group

Table 14: WFS participants achieving short and sustained job outcomes at 28 September 2018, by ethnic group
	Short job outcomes		Sustained job outcomes
Ethnic group	Number of WFS participants	% of WFS participants	Number of WFS participants	% of WFS participants
White	1,041	92.3	727	91.8
Minority ethnic[8]	50	4.4	34	4.3
Unknown	37	3.3	31	3.9
Total	1,128	100	792	100

Table 15: Work First Scotland participants, by ethnic group

Table 15: WFS participants, by ethnic group
Ethnic group	Number of WFS participants	% of WFS participants
White	4,105	92.6
Minority ethnic[8]	166	3.7
Unknown	161	3.6
Total	4,432	100[6]

Tables 14 and 15 show that around 4% of participants achieving short and sustained job outcomes, as well as those joining the service, reported being from minority ethnic groups.