We are please to  announce the Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey at December 2023 can be viewed Here

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We have recently released an update to the Excel based Social Worker Data Tool which replaces the provisional tool previously published. The update was delayed due to the delay in the publishing of the mid-year population estimates (available here)

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We are pleased to announce that the next six-monthly SW WTE and WTE vacancy report will be published on Friday 12^th July at 9.30am. This report is based on data from December 2023 and will be published as an official statistics report.

If you have any questions about this forthcoming publication please contact Mike Docherty, Workforce Intelligence manager by email: 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 Distribution of the Social Service Workforce Report was published on Monday 5th February 2024 (available here.)

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

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Further to the revision notice published on 20th November 2023, the following additional tables were revised on 27th November 2023.

Table 27: Estimated number of nurses by sub-sector and employer type, 2022
Table 28. Estimated number of teachers by sub-sector and employer type, 2022
Table 30: Response rates by sub-sector, 2022

The revised report can be found here: https://data.sssc.uk.com/data-publications/22-workforce-data-report/328-scottish-social-service-sector-report-on-2022-workforce-data

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In developing and quality assuring our processes ahead of our work on the 2023 workforce data report our analysis processes were reviewed and an anomaly was detected. It was found that when calculating some of the percentage rates on the characteristics of the workforce (e.g. ethnicity, gender, disability etc.) an incomplete version of the data set was used. This has resulted in the need to revise some of the data tables to correct these errors in the published report.

By identifying the underlying cause of the error we are implementing greater quality assurance checks into our process to prevent this in the future.
The affected tables and charts are listed below.

Table 14: Percentage of staff by gender and sub-sector, 2022
Table 15: Percentage of staff by ethnic classification and employer type, 2022
Table 16: Percentage of staff by ethnic classification and sub-sector, 2022
Table 17: Percentage of staff by disability and sub-sector, 2022
Table 19: Percentage of staff by job function and sub-sector 2022
Table 20: Percentage of staff by contract type and sub-sector, 2022
Table 21: Median weekly hours by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Table 22: Percentage of part time and full time workers by sub-sector,
2022
Figure 9: Histograms of the age of the workforce by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Figure 10: Histograms of hours by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Figure 11. Percentage of part time and full time workers by sub-sector, 2022

This report has been revised and all of the affected tables as listed above and associated text have been updated with accurate figures. Other text remains as originally published.

The revised report can be found here: https://data.sssc.uk.com/data-publications/22-workforce-data-report/328-scottish-social-service-sector-report-on-2022-workforce-data

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