Recommendation 13

We asked DfE, given the data available to it, whether it planned to adopt a system- level metric to determine the success of its skills programmes, and what might this look like or when it could be expected. DfE asserted that having a single metric would not tell it everything that it needed about the programmes. We therefore asked DfE how it was defining what success looked like. DfE did not set out any targets for the level of the Index in future years to indicate what success for skills programmes would look like, or details of other targets that it was using to determine success.16 Multiplicity of government skills programmes