Ministear airson lonnsachadh agus Sgilean Meinister for Lear an Skeils Minister for Learning and Skills

Alasdair Allan BPA/MSP

FIT: 08457741741
E: scottish.ministers@scotland.gsLgov.uk

The Scottish Government

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Ms Kezia Dugdale MSP The Scottish Parliament EDINBURGH

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Ur faidhlelYour ref: GC-04/10/11 Ar faidhle/Our ref: 2011/1020694

2f October 2011

Thank you for your letter of 4 October 2011 regarding the collection of young people's data as part of Activity Agreements. As you know, Activity Agreements were piloted in 10 Local Authority areas across Scotland between June 2009 and March 2011. In order to assess the successfulness of Activity Agreements, an evaluation was commissioned in October 2010. This was a short term piece of work to look at each of the pilots and how they developed Activity Agreements and where the areas of best practice were emerging. Prior to this work, the pilot areas were issued with a framework which contained what information was likely to be needed for this. This was issued in January 2010. For some of the areas, this was difficult as they had a mainly paperbased system or hadn't colleCted data consistently prior to this date. This gave some variations in the data that Blake Stevenson was able to collect. The evaluation recommendation seeks to rectify this by suggesting that Local Partnerships have more guidance on data collection requirements. We endorse this recommendation and are encouraging partnership to return information on young peoples outcomes directly to us on a quarterly basis. This is a short-term exercise which is two-fold: firstly to encourage partnerships to develop capacity for data collection at a local level and also to collate a picture of participation at a national level. In the coming year, we hope to be able to extract much of this data through Skills Development Scotland. Wider work on data collection is currently ongoing with local partnerships to ensure they are collecting robust data and that this is being shared for all possible provision that a young person can undertake.
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Cidhe Bhictoria. Dun Eideann, EH6 6QQ Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ www.scotland.gov.uk

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Importantly, this work includes encouraging responsibilities for key points of this data collection to be identified to ensure that young people are not lost at key transition points. I hope this information is helpful.
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ALASDAIR ALLAN

Cidhe Bhict6ria, Dun Eideann, EH6 6QQ Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ www.scotland.gov.uk

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