Destination Measures North East Regional Group meeting 14 June 2017 Steve Harris Destination Measures, Performance Tables Development Unit

Destination Measures What are destination measures? Destination measures show the percentage of pupils or students going to or remaining in an education and/or employment destination in the academic year after completing their key stage 4 or key stage 5 (level 3) studies Published annually at national, regional, LA, parliamentary constituency and institutional level (including student characteristics) Published in Performance Tables as a headline accountability measure for both key stages

Education or employment activity 2014/15 Destination Measures What constitutes a ‘destination’ in the measure? The cohort is as published in the Performance Tables Destinations are derived from activity the year after a student completes KS4 or completes KS5 (level 3 only) The destination has to be sustained for at least two terms (October – March) Employment destinations are allowed a pause of one month Students recorded in both education and employment will be recorded as education 2013/14 cohort Education or employment activity 2014/15 Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr Jun Jul

Destination Measures What about students who don’t have a sustained destination? There are other reporting categories in the measure Destination not sustained – some activity during the year but failed to meet the 6 month sustainability criteria Activity not captured – no activity recorded in any of the administrative datasets

Destination Measures Published table example

Destination Measures Administrative datasets with What data do we use? Administrative datasets with Record of actual participation Record of type of activity undertaken Recorded start and end dates (where available)

Destination Measures Destinations are derived from School Census data School sixth form Special schools HESA data UK Universities HE alternative providers UCAS data Gap years NCCIS data (KS4) Employment Training YP NEET ILR data Colleges Training providers Apprenticeships Specialist Post 16 provision KS4 and KS5 Cohorts HMRC data Employment DWP data Benefits Awarding body data Independent schools KS4 Destination Measure KS5 Destination Measure

Destination Measures Published Data National level Additional breakdowns are published by student characteristics including Disadvantage Free school meals SEN Gender Ethnicity Regional level KS4 & KS5 Destination Measure (Proportions and numbers) Local Authority level Institutional level Parliamentary Constituency level Performance Tables Student level data shared with schools & colleges

Destination Measures Student level data is shared with schools and colleges Prior to publication, student level data is provided to institutions Opportunity for institutions to check and update own records Queries can be raised with us concerning individual student destinations Next data share will take place on 3 July 2017 for the 2014/15 cohort

Destination Measures KS4 only How is Client Caseload Information System (CCIS) data used? KS4 only Identify any additional employment or training destinations that were not captured in all other admin datasets Identify students who are NEET (In conjunction with DWP benefit data)

National North East 98.2% (of 570,000) 99.4% (of 28,000) Destination Measures Coverage of CCIS data for KS4 destination measures cohort (state-funded schools) National North East 98.2% (of 570,000) 99.4% (of 28,000) Known issues with CCIS data Duplicate entries Within a single LA and across LAs

Destination Measures Sustained education and employment destinations after key stage 4 by region England: 2014/15 (state-funded mainstream schools)

Destination Measures Sustained education and employment destinations after key stage 5 by region England: 2014/15 (state-funded mainstream schools and colleges)

Destination Measures Future Developments 2015/16 destinations will include HE alternative providers and self employment Later cohorts will include students studying at below level 3

Thank you for your time. Any questions? Destination Measures Destination measures are published on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations Thank you for your time. Any questions?