Main Points

This report presents statistics for the No One Left Behind strategic approach to employability delivery in Scotland. Statistics are presented to the most recent quarter of January to March 2025.

• There can be a delay between participant’s starting to receive No One Left Behind support and this being reported to the Scottish Government while the process of verifying eligibility takes place. This means participants starting in earlier quarters may not be reported until future publications. Therefore, data for the most recent quarters is provisional.  

• Official statistics in development for No One Left Behind show a total of 86,427 people started receiving support from April 2019 to March 2025. The number of people starting to receive support has increased each year from 2,669 in 2019/20 to 23,188 in 2024/25.

• In the most recent quarter, quarter 4 of year 6, 5,702 people started to receive support through No One Left Behind. This was a 4% increase on the previous quarter and a 14% decrease on the same quarter in the previous year.

• In the most recent quarter, 2,262 (40%) participants reported having no or limited work experience, 1,303 (23%)  reported transport and 1,059 (19%) reported childcare as barriers to entering employment.

• Overall, most participants were unemployed when starting to receive support on No One Left Behind 50,380 (58%), while 10,344 (12%) of participants were in employment. A further 16,936 (20%) of participants were economically inactive when starting to receive support on No One Left Behind.

• There has been at least 64,032 positive outcomes achieved by the 86,427 people supported under the No One Left Behind approach between April 2019 and March 2025, including 26,812 people (31%) entering employment and a further 12,302 (14%) entered further or higher education or training.