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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Destination Measures
Published table example

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 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

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

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

14. 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

15. Thank you for your time. Any questions? Destination Measures
Destination measures are published on GOV.UK at
Thank you for your time.
Any questions?