FEWER young people in West Dunbartonshire are going on to positive destinations after leaving school, according to official statistics.
A new “school leaver destination report” for 2019/20 recorded 89.66 per cent positive destinations in West Dunbartonshire – 3.7 per cent below the national figure, and a drop of 3.96 per cent from last year’s figure.
In Clydebank, of the 2019/20 leavers from Clydebank High School, 43 per cent progressed to higher education, 27 per cent to further education and 15 per cent to employment.
Almost 8 per cent were recorded as “unemployed, seeking work”, with 4 per cent in training and just over 2 per cent falling under the “unemployed, not seeking work” bracket.