The monthly progress report is a long-standing report produced by FÁS since the late 1990s providing summary overall national data on outcomes for persons referred under the National Employment Action Plan (EAP). It predates the involvement of the LES in the EAP referral process (which commenced in 2009), and the absence of a reference to this LES involvement is an oversight.
Approximately one third of referrals under EAP are now to LES offices, with the remainder being to employment services offices of the Department.
The report in its current form and the data collection process underlying it have become out-dated in a number of respects as the EAP has evolved, and particularly in the light of the transfer of the employment service from FÁS to the Department. It is planned to move to an updated reporting format later this year.