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On this page you can find announcements about publication dates and updates about our work.

Publication of the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2022

15 Aug 2023

We are pleased to announce that the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) 2022 Report was published on Tuesday 15th August 2023 (available here.)

For more information, please contact Zara Gall, Data Researcher at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Announcement of the publication date for the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2022 Workforce Data

02 Aug 2023

We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2022 Workforce Data will be published on Tuesday 5th September at 9.30am.

For more information, please contact Tim Gronneberg at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Last year’s report is available on the site at: Scottish Social Service Sector: Report 2021 Workforce Data.

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Announcement of the publication date for the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2022

11 Jul 2023

We are able to announce today that the annual Mental Health Officers National Statistics report will be published on the SSSC’s workforce data website on Tuesday 15th August at 9:30am. This will contain data on Mental Health Officers (MHOs) working in local authorities from December 2022. Last year’s report (with data from December 2021) can be found here:

 https://data.sssc.uk.com/data-publications/23-mental-health-officers-reports/292-mental-health-officers-scotland-report-2021.

 And MHO time series data covering the period 2005-21 can be found here:

 https://data.sssc.uk.com/local-level-data/156-mho-time-series-data

 

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Publication of 2021 detailed workforce information

21 Dec 2022

We are pleased to announce that the detailed workforce information for 2021 was published on Wednesday 21st December 2022.

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Publication of the Adults' services time series 2011 to 2021

13 Dec 2022

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Adults' services time series 2011 to 2021.

These tables look at a time series from 2011 to 2021 of the adults' services workforce and show the change over time of the composition of adults’ services.

These tables also include an overview of the headcount, numbers of services, median number of staff and employer type for all adults’ services’ sub-sectors.

 

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Publication of the Staff vacancies in care services 2021 report

28 Nov 2022

The Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have published new figures on the levels of staff vacancies in Scotland’s social care services.

As with the previous reports, this report provides a national overview of vacancies and recruitment difficulties reported by care services to the Care Inspectorate, the body which registers and inspects all social care services.

The report is available here.

 

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