Presentation delivered by Audrey Rees, SDS, as part of an MIS Development Network event held at College Development Network.

1. 16+ Data Hub – Opportunities for All
Post-16 Transitions
‘Supporting all young people to participate in
post-16 learning, training or work’
Colleges Development Network
November 24th 2016

2. Opportunities for All – Youth Employment Strategy
Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce
Post-16Education(Scotland)Act2013
Move from Destinations to Participation
CurriculumforExcellence

3. Information Sharing – 16+ Data Hub – Purpose
‘enable multi-partner data sharing, covering
young people in Scotland (aged 16-24)’
• Secure gateway for partners to upload and download data
• Provides a new link between existing data systems
• Exchange existing administrative data between partners

4. What is shared and who is covered
• Covers the ‘Opportunities for All’ cohort (young people in Scotland aged
16-19), and also covers 20-24 year olds
 Identifier fields (e.g. Name, Date of Birth, SCN)
 Status fields (e.g. current status, start & end date if moved on)
 Flagging fields (e.g. ASN, Looked after, young carer, updates on all
flagging fields)
 Preferred Occupation identified (LA and SDS updates)
More details regarding what is shared by whom is covered under Statutory
Guidance and highlighted in Scottish Government Framework documents

5. Who are
the
partners?

6. SDS CM
system
(CSS)
LA Ed DEPT CM
system DWP CM
system
SAAS CM
system
SFC CM system
COLLEGE CM
system
SDS Regional Operations
Staff
SDS CTS system (National
Training Programmes)

7. Records shared?
In August 2016, SDS processed
approx. 389,000 records

8. Post-16 Transitions -
Key Messages

9. Benefits
• Colleges can easily track current status / progression of past students (up
to 24)
• More comprehensive and robust management information with updates
from partners
• Young people without a positive progression will be supported by SDS
Advisers and partners
• More accurate and complete reporting – Opportunities for All Participation
Measure
• Up to date information will allow Colleges to be proactive and address
potential issues to provide more support to young people

10. Young people without an offer will be tracked and monitored through the
16+ Data-Hub
Young people without an offer will be tracked and monitored through the
16+ Data-Hub

11. Role of Key Partners – Colleges

12. provided
Colleges to SDS
Personal Information
Name, address, postcode,
telephone number, DOB,
Scottish Candidate Number
Institutional Information
Institution identifier, student
identifier
Status Fields
Course title, course code, course
length, mode of attendance, date
of course completion or
withdrawal
SDS to Colleges
Personal Information
Name, address, postcode, DOB,
SDS client reference, local
authority name and code
School Information
School name, Scottish Executive
Education Department code
Status Fields
Status (post college)
organisation name, start date,
course title, course level
Flagging Fields
Additional support needs, co-
ordinated support plan, individual
learning plan, looked after,
preferred occupation, intended
destination, young carer

13. Report asks from
colleges
• Source of data
• Concatenate Course Code and Name
• LAC Start/End Date
• Benefits
• Gender
• Young Carer

14. College Report Template
16 Plus Data Sharing - All Fields
This report shows all data included in the Statutory Guidance for individuals aged between 15 and 25.
Scottish
Candidate
Number
Student
Identifier
Surname Forename Preferred
Forename
Date of Birth Gender SDS Client
Ref
Address
Postcode Start Date Course Title Course Level End Date Local
Authority
Code
Local Auth
Name
SEED Code School Name
LA Preferred
Occupation
SDS
Preferred
Occupation
Preferred
Route
Current Status Current Status
Start Date
Current
Status
Organisation
Current
Status
Course Title
Current
Status Course
Level
Current Status
Employer
Current Status
Job Title
Current
Status End
Date
Looked After
Status
Young Carer ASN IEP CSP Transition
Plan
Child’s Plan

15. Developing the
Participation Measure

16. Introduction
• 2012 Scottish Government’s commitment through Opportunities for All to
offer a place in learning or training to every 16-19 year old in Scotland
who is not currently in employment, education or training
• Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework – Scotland
Performs – increase the proportion of young people in learning, training or
work. Currently populated using School Leaver Destination follow up data
– intention to move to Annual Participation Measure by August 2017
• Shared dataset – allowing partners to identify what young people are
doing in ‘real time’ throughout their 16-19 journeys
• Improved service delivery and provide a more tailored offer – helping to
identify the right time to engage with customers
• Individuals must have a record on CSS and be aged between 16 and 19
on the 31st
March 2016

17. Report background
• 2nd
release of data on the participation of 16-19 year olds at national and
local authority level
• Introduction of the annual participation measure reporting methodology
• Annual measure takes account of all statuses for individuals over the
course of the year as opposed to focusing on an individuals status on a
single day, as adopted by the 2015 snapshot methodology
• Overall participation classification (participating, not participating and
unconfirmed) is based on the classification which has the highest sum of
days

20. Question and Answer