Academic year 2024/25

September Guarantee: offers of education and training for young people age 16 and 17

LA management information on September Guarantee offers of education or training places for young people aged 16 and 17.

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  • September Guarantee

    Local authority, National, Regional

    National, regional and local authority September Guarantee figures

    Number of rows
    972
    Indicators
    • Cohort number
    • Percentage of young people who received a suitable offer
    • Annual change in the percentage receiving a suitable offer
    Time period
    2019 to 2024
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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This document describes the data included in the ‘September Guarantee: offers of education and training for young people age 16 and 17’ management information release’s underlying data. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License and is intended to meet at least three stars for Open Data.

The September Guarantee helps local authorities fulfil their duty to provide education and training to young people and find them a suitable place. It also helps them to work with their partners, particularly schools and colleges, and to agree how the process will work in their area.

The offer should be appropriate to the young person’s needs and can include:

  • full-time education in school sixth-forms or colleges
  • an apprenticeship or traineeship
  • employment combined with part-time education or training

Coverage

The underlying data files include national, regional and local authority September Guarantee figures in England. 

File formats and conventions

The files are in comma separated values format (.csv) with UTF-8 encoding.

Symbols used in the underlying data are as follows:

Symbol  |  Meaning
z       |  When an observation is not applicable

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If you have a specific enquiry about September Guarantee: offers of education and training for young people age 16 and 17 statistics and data:

Post-16 statistics team

Email: post16.statistics@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Post-16 statistics team

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If you have a media enquiry:

Telephone: 020 7783 8300

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Phone: 0370 000 2288

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