Footnotes
1 Source: Eurostat and UK Labour Force Survey
2 Scott, G., Gillespie, M and Innes, S. (2003) Breaking Barriers: Poverty, childcare and mothers' transitions to work. Rosemount Lifelong Learning/ Scottish Poverty Information Unit.
3 This chimes with the findings from Futureskills Scotland's work which shows that the education and training system generally supplies what employers want, but that it works less well for growing businesses, small firms, jobs at the lower end of the occupational scale, and softer core skills.