Statistical
First Release: New Deal for Young People And Long-term Unemployed
People, SRF 17/2000, DfEE,
27 April 2000, Table 11. Back
47
QQ. 35-36; New Deal for Young People: Leavers with Unknown
Destinations, ESR 2, Employment Service, June 1999, pp. 3-4.
The researchers selected a random sample of 1,057 people from
the 9,000 leavers for unknown destinations in the period April
to August 1998. The Employment Service provided last-known addresses
and 680 full interviews were carried out (a response rate of 55
per cent). Back
48 New
Deal for Young People: Leavers with Unknown Destinations,
ESR 2, Employment Service, June 1999, p. 24. Back
49 QQ.
35-36. Back
50
HC Deb, vol. 339, 18 November 1999, col. 11W. Back
51 QQ.
22-23. Back
52 Going
Public: Opening up New Deal Opportunities in the Public Sector,
The New Deal Task Force Group on the Public Sector, November 1999,
p. 6. Back
53 Ibid,
p. 28. Back
54 Q.
24. Back
55 Second
Report from the Education and Employment Committee, Session 1997-98,
The New Deal, HC 263-I, paragraph 34. Back
56 Eighth
Report from the Education and Employment Committee, Session 1997-98,
The New Deal Pathfinders, HC 1059, paras 39-43. Back
57 Q.
22 Back
58 In
order to compare like with like the Government has divided the
NDYP Units of Delivery into 7 Cluster Groups, based on labour
market characteristics. The Cluster Groups are: A) Rural tight
labour market; B)Rural high unemployment; C) Rural/Urban tight
labour market; D) Rural/Urban high unemployment; E)Urban tight
labour market; F)Urban high unemployment; G) Inner City high unemployment.
Back
59 Q.
55. Back
60 The
North Essex Unit of Delivery has consistently outperformed the
average in its Cluster Group. Back
61 Q.
56. Back
62 Fifth
Special Report from the Education and Employment Committee, Session
1999-2000, Government's response to The Fourth Report from
The Committee, Session 1999-2000: Employability and Jobs: Is There
A Jobs Gap?, HC 603, p. xvii. Back
63 The
New Deal for Young People, Two Years On,
ESR41, Employment Service, February 2000, p. 62. Back
64 Q.
51. Back
65 In
addition to the survey assessments, the Government provides data
on the performance of each of the 144 NDYP units of delivery,
as measured by nine Core Performance Measures (see: http://www.dfee.gov.uk/ndimprove). Back