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 April to June 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 92,523 people started receiving support from April 2019 to June 2025. The number of people starting to receive support has increased each year from 2,652 in 2019/20 to 23,866 in 2024/25.

• In the most recent quarter, quarter 1 of year 7, 5,541 people started to receive support through No One Left Behind. This was a 11% decrease on the previous quarter and a 4% decrease on the same quarter in the previous year.

• In the most recent quarter, 2,164 (39%) participants reported having no or limited work experience, 1,250 (23%)  reported transport and 879 (16%) reported childcare as barriers to entering employment.

• Overall, most participants were unemployed when starting to receive support on No One Left Behind 54,416 (59%), while 11,098 (12%) of participants were in employment. A further 17,764 (19%) of participants were economically inactive when starting to receive support on No One Left Behind.

• There has been at least 69,277 positive outcomes achieved by the 92,523 people supported under the No One Left Behind approach between April 2019 and June 2025, including 28,699 people (31%) entering employment and a further 13,222 (14%) entering further or higher education or training.