The number of young people in ‘positive destinations’ after leaving school in West Dunbartonshire has improved fractionally over the last year, but remains below the national average.
Figures for the 2020/21 academic year were presented to councillors at a meeting of the local authority’s education committee last week, and showed that 90.99 percent of school leavers locally were in a ‘positive destination’ in October of last year, up from 89.66 percent.
However, the figure is one of the lowest in the country, 4.49 percent below the national average of 95.48 percent - with the picture even more mixed when broken into individual schools.
