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Vocational Education
Alan Keen: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent assessment he has made of the effects on students' careers of the availability of vocational courses in schools. [313299]
Mr. Coaker: An assessment has not been made to date of the effects on careers of vocational learning in schools. We do know that wider research has indicated a positive return to earnings for those undertaking vocational learning while our own Youth Cohort study suggests that around 22 per cent. of learners with existing vocational qualifications are in higher education by the age of 19. Vocational and applied qualifications offer valuable choice to young people and 14-19 Diplomas in particular will enable young people to achieve their ambitions because employers and higher education designed them.
Young People: Community Orders
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to his Department's press release of 24 April 2009 on community service for young people, from which budgets the funding for the programme will be drawn. [314842]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Community Service programme will be funded from DCSF programme budgets.
Young People: Training
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what formula was used to determine the funding allocated to local authorities for 16-plus skills provision in 2010-11. [314758]
Mr. Iain Wright: The funding formula used to determine the allocation for each provider is that contained within the learner responsive model for schools and colleges and within the employer responsive model for work-based learning providers. Details of how these models work can be found at:
Funding is not allocated through local authorities for 19+ education and training other than for those with a learning difficulty assessment.
Mr. Evennett:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding has
been awarded to each local authority for 16-plus skills provision in 2010-11. [314759]
Mr. Iain Wright: Funding allocated to local authorities for 16-18 learning in the 2010/11 academic year will be the aggregation of all 16-18 providers they are responsible for. The amount of funding each provider will be allocated in 2010/11 is currently being agreed and will be announced by the end of March 2010. Funding is not allocated through local authorities for 19+ education and training other than for those with a learning difficulty assessment.
Young People: Unemployment
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of people aged between 16 and 24 years were not in education, employment or training in each region in each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available. [300822]
Mr. Iain Wright: Official estimates of the number and proportion of young people of academic age 16 to 18(1) who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are published by the Department in a Statistical First Release (SFR) each June and can be found on the Department's website:
Estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) of the number and proportion of people of academic age 16 to 24 who were NEET in each region in England in each of the last eight quarters are shown in the following tables.
| Q4 2007 | Q1 2008 | Q2 2008 | Q3 2008 | |||||
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | |
| Q4 2008 | Q1 2009 | Q2 2009 | Q3 2009 | |||||
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | |
Estimates from the Labour Force Survey and will include pregnant mothers, those caring for children or relatives, people with a disability or suffering from ill health, and those waiting for a course or job to start,
including those on a gap year. It should also be noted that the estimates are subject to survey error, and should therefore be treated with caution. The 95 per cent. confidence interval for a regional estimate of NEET using the Labour Force Survey is typically around plus or minus 2-3 percentage points.
We are committed to ensuring that young people NEET do not become a "lost generation" and have taken decisive action to strengthen existing provision and put in place new support, training and jobs for young people. Through the September Guarantee, we are offering all 16 and 17-year-olds a suitable place to continue in learning, and announced on 18 November plans to extend the Guarantee to 16 and 17-year-olds who are NEET in January. Budget 2009 announced the Young Person's Guarantee of a job, training or a place in the Community Task Force for 18 to 24-year-olds who are approaching 12 months on jobseeker's allowance. Already 95,000 jobs under the Future Jobs Fund have been approved and some young people have started work.
In July, the Government launched 'Backing Young Britain' to bring together businesses, charities and Government to create opportunities for young people giving them a better start on the career ladder.
By offering schemes such as volunteering, work experience and apprenticeships we will ensure that young people get the start they deserve to get on the career ladder.
(1) Academic age refers to the age at the start of the academic year, 31 August.
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of 16 to 19 year-olds in Torbay constituency were (a) in education, training or employment and (b) unemployed in each year since 1992. [314617]
Mr. Iain Wright: Estimates of the number of 16 to 19-year-olds participating in education, employment or training are not available at parliamentary constituency level. The Department for Children Schools and Families publishes annual estimates of the proportion of 16 to 17-year-olds participating in education and training in each local authority. These estimates are available via this link under "additional information":
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