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 October to December 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.  

• A total of 104,595 people started receiving support from April 2019 to December 2025. The number receiving support has increased each year from 2,652 in 2019/20 to 23,935 in 2024/25.

• In the most recent quarter, quarter 3 of year 7, 4,603 people started to receive support through No One Left Behind. This was a 30% decrease on the previous quarter and a 17% decrease on the same quarter in the previous year.

• Data on ethnicity by sex is reported in this publication for the first time. Overall, a higher proportion of minority ethnic participants were female (56%) compared with white participants (45%).

• In the most recent quarter, 50% of participants reported at least one long-term health condition. Additional funding was provided in 2025/26 to ensure Specialist Employability Support (SES) was available across Scotland. At least 1,034 participants have received SES between April - December 2025.

• There has been at least 80,030 positive outcomes achieved between April 2019 and December 2025, including 32,952 people (32%) entering employment and 14,736 (14%) entering further or higher education or training.