Written question WQ97068

The Young Person’s Guarantee (YPG) is our umbrella approach to supporting 16-24 year olds in Wales into education, employment or training or setting up their own business. To date, we have supported over 57,000 young people through the Young Person’s Guarantee with more than 8,000 of those engagements leading to employment.

There are five key programmes that underpin the YPG:

• Jobs Growth Wales Plus;

• Communities for Work Plus;

• ReAct Plus;

• Big Ideas Wales; and

• Apprenticeships.

The table below provides the estimated number of young people, by local authority, who have engaged in the YPG since its establishment in November 2021. The data covers Communities for Work Plus, ReAct Plus, Big Ideas Wales and Apprenticeships and is broken down by local authority. An overall number for engagements has been included for Jobs Growth Wales Plus as they do not have local authority data readily available. The latest available data for Jobs Growth Wales Plus is available on the Welsh Government website: Jobs Growth Wales+ statistics: April 2024 to March 2025 | GOV.WALES

Local authority

Total

Blaenau Gwent

1,270

Bridgend

1,846

Caerphilly

2,802

Cardiff

4,082

Carmarthenshire

2,475

Ceredigion

853

Conwy

1,173

Denbighshire

1,007

Flintshire

1,719

Gwynedd

1,641

Isle of Anglesey

1,090

Merthyr Tydfil

1,030

Monmouthshire

733

Neath Port Talbot

2,476

Newport

2,032

Pembrokeshire

1,817

Powys

1,123

Rhondda Cynon Taff

4,408

Swansea

3,101

The Vale of Glamorgan

1,569

Torfaen

1,479

Wrexham

1,606

Jobs Growth Wales Plus

15,685

Total

57,017

It was not possible to gather the data for outcomes by local authority in the timeframe.