September Guarantee: offers of education and training for young people age 16 and 17
Data guidance
Published
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
Data files
All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.
September Guarantee
Filename
ud_september_guarantee_2024.csv
Geographic levels
Local authority; National; Regional
Time period
2019 to 2024
Content
National, regional and local authority September Guarantee figures
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
annual_change_offer_made
Annual change in the percentage receiving a suitable offer
cohort_number
Cohort number
no_offer
Percentage no offer
not_recorded
Percentage not recorded
offer_made_percentage
Percentage of young people who received a suitable offer
offer_not_appropriate
Percentage offer not appropriate
Footnotes
Some caution should be applied when using these figures as this is management information data. The quality of data and how well 16 and 17 year olds are tracked can vary at local authority level.
Percentage of young people who received a suitable offer includes: Education or training or continuing in education or training, Continuing in employment with study (regulated qualification) and Re-engagement activities
Percentage offer not appropriate includes: Going into employment without training, Personal circumstances prevent learning and Other reason
Percentage no offer includes: Application awaiting outcome, No appropriate provision and Considering options/not applied for learning
Percentage not recorded includes: Unable to contact due to address not known or other reason and Guarantee status not yet recorded