The findings are included in a series of reports for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), which look at awareness of the allowance in pilot areas before the scheme was rolled out nationally last September.
One report on young people not in education, employment or training in the pilot areas said the diversity of these people needed to be recognised to enable policies to be tailored to particular needs.
The DfES said 275,292 people had received payments by late March. Around 50 per cent of eligible 16-year-olds had applied by last September.
- www.dfes.gov.uk/research.
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