The staff vacancies in care services 2023 report is jointly published by the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). This latest report provides data on vacancies reported by care services as at 31 December 2023. It shows the number of registered care services with a vacancy, the number of actual vacancies that services say they had using whole time equivalent (WTE) data, and data on the reasons why services have reported that vacancies are hard to fill.

The report is available to download here.

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The Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey June 2024 and its associated tables have been revised and reissued. 

There was an error noted in the version of this report published on 08 November 2024 in Table 1. The total change % had failed to include imputed data from one authority from December 2023. No other tables or data were affected by this and the report has been corrected and republished. 

The reissued report can be found here.

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We are please to  announce the Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey at June 2024 can be viewed Here

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We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2023Workforce Data was published on Thursday 29th August 2024 (available here.)

For more information or for any queries, please contact Tim Gronneberg , Senior Intellience Analyst at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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We are pleased to announce that the Mental Health Officers 2023 Report was published on Tuesday 27th August 2024 (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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We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on the 2023 Workforce Data will be published on Thursday 29th August 2024 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 on 2022 Workforce Data

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