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Barnsley in Depth Children’s and Young People’s Report – 2008/09 Information11.4% of the under 25 clients who had a learning disability; similar to the12.8% for all age groups .The majority of clients who were under-25 and were not in employment(62.3% - no change from June 2007). This is higher than the percentage forclients of all ages (49.3% - similar to September 2008) 7 .The under-25 group was more likely to be engaged in accredited training thanthe All Age group: 49.4% and 37.8% respectively. In terms of the topics of theinterventions, under 25s had greater involvement (compared with all clients) inLiteracy & Numeracy, Food and Other courses and activities. They had lessinvolvment in ICT courses, craft skills, languages and Creative and DigitalArts.6.12.2 Learning Net clients by geographical areasPostcodes of learners’ residences were geocoded and then aggregated byelectoral ward. There were 914 individuals aged under-25 on the Learning Netdatabase; 868 of these could be allocated to a ward (95%) and the rest wereeither from outside Barnsley or the postcode was missing / incomplete.There is a correlation between the ward deprivation and the number ofindividuals on the Learning Net database aged under-25 as a rate per 1,000people under-25 but it is not very strong (some wards have higher thanexpected rates for their level of deprivation). St. Helen’s ward had the highestrate at 24.4 per 1,000 (it was also highest as at June 2007 and September2008) followed by Cudworth (17.9), Monk Bretton (16) and Darton East (15.6).Penistone East (1.7), Penistone West (4.1) and Dodworth (6.1) had the lowestrates: not surprising given Learning Net’s remit, its activities and the higherlevels of education in these areas.7These are estimates based on the number of interventions not the number of individuals- 103 -