Sounds a bit technical. Well it is. Public service agreements (PSAs) are three-year plans that set out the key improvements people can expect from public spending. They are linked to the Chancellor's spending review process and set outcome-based performance targets. This toolkit is a check list designed to focus activity by the learning and skills councils, local authorities, Connexions and other partners on two important targets regarding young people's achievement.
And these targets are? The first is that starting from a 2004 baseline figure of 66.8 per cent, the number of 19-year-olds reaching at least level 2 should have risen three per cent by 2006 and a further two per cent by 2008. "Level 2" means five GCSEs at A* to C or the equivalent, such as a level 2 NVQ or an intermediate GNVQ plus a GCSE. The second is that the proportion of 16- to 18-year-olds NEET (not in education, employment or training) should fall by two per cent from 2004 to 2010.
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