We’ve published our second Register snapshot report which gives a unique insight into the social work, social care and children and young people workforce.  

This second report on our Register highlights the data we hold about the registered workforce in our role as regulator. 

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The report, which examines data from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, shows there were 176,781 people on the SSSC Register in March this year, which is an increase of 8,549 or 5.1% on April 2023.  

The registered workforce represents 83% of the total social service workforce of more than 212,000 in Scotland.  It’s important to understand more about this workforce to help identify trends, opportunities and challenges for workforce planning, which our data can also influence and support.  

Information on differences between registration data and workforce data and their strengths and weaknesses can be found here: https://data.sssc.uk.com/what-we-do/registration-and-workforce-data

The SSSC also publishes quarterly data on the numbers of registrants by category and the numbers with a qualification condition here: https://data.sssc.uk.com/registration-data 

The quarterly data are available from March 2019 onwards.