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The Education Challenge
Performance
The share of pupils with a SEN Education, Health and Care Pupils with an SEN Education, Health and Care Plan, 2018/9
plan in Barrow is higher across all levels of education,
compared to both Cumbria and England. Primary Secondary Special
The proportion of young people not in employment, education Barrow* 3.3% 3.1% 100%
or training (NEET) has fallen in Cumbria, from 4.4% in Cumbria 2.2% 2.4% 99.8%
2016/17 to 3.8% in 2018/19. NEET rates in Cumbria sit well
below those of comparator geographies. England 1.6% 1.7% 98.3%
The People, Employment & Skills Strategy Group (2019) * Estimated as the average of schools in Barrow.
notes that the NEET rate in Barrow rose in 2018/9, not Proportion of 16-17 year olds NEETs (including not known)
managing to sustain its 2017/8 decrease. In 2018/9, Barrow
had the second highest NEET rate (4.2%) in Cumbria.
Source: 16-17 Year Olds Recorded in Education and Training and NEET by Local Authority, DoE,
2019; Find and Compare Schools in England, DoE, 2019; People, Employment & Skills Strategy
Group: Evidence Base, CLEP, 2019
