We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on the 2024 Workforce Data will be published on Tuesday 30th September 2025 at 9.30am on the SSSC data website.

The report was originally expected to be published at the end of August, however, there were significant delays in receiving all the data this year, which led to publication being pushed back by a month.

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We are pleased to announce that the Mental Health Officers 2023 Report was published on Tuesday 26th August 2025 (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 able to announce today that the annual Mental Health Officers Accredited Official Statistics report will be published on the SSSC’s workforce data website on Tuesday 26^th August at 9:30am. This will contain data on Mental Health Officers (MHOs) working in local authorities from December 2024.

Last year’s report (with data from December 2023) can be found here:

Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2023 | Scottish Social Services Workforce Data

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We are pleased to announce that the Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey has been published today ( Friday 11th July 2024)

The report is availiable here

This report presents data on the whole time equivalent (WTE) number of social workers and social work vacancies in local authority social work services in December 2024. It is the fourth of our half-yearly reports on practising social workers (that is, main grade social workers and senior social workers).

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We are pleased to announce that, after a short delay, the Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey will be published on the morning of Friday 11th July at 09:30am.

Analysis of data at 6th December 2024.

This report presents data on the whole time equivalent (WTE) number of social workers and social work vacancies in local authority social work services in December 2024. It is the fourth of our half-yearly reports on practising social workers (that is, main grade social workers and senior social workers).

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Unfortunately we have to announce a delay to the date of publication of our next official statistics report on the WTE and WTE vacancies for social workers within local authorities. This is due to unanticipated problems with the processing of the data. We will announce a new publication date later this week.

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