The figures, outlined at CYP Now's 10-Year Youth Strategy conference last week, list the 20 most popular performance indicators included in local area agreements (LAAs).
Reducing the number of 16- to 18-year-old NEETs topped the table with 117 councils making it a priority in their LAA. The second most common indicator was cutting the under-18 conception rate, which featured in 103 LAAs.
Other indicators related directly to children and young people included lowering obesity levels among primary school-age children, in 97 LAAs, and increasing young people's participation in positive activities, in 75 LAAs.
However, child poverty featured as a priority in just 41 LAAs. Steve Walker, principal consultant for children and young people at IDeA, said this could be because some local authority areas didn't have massive areas of deprivation.
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