We are pleased to announce that the 2016 MHO workforce data tables and charts have been published as addenda to the full time series data (click here):

• Filled MHO posts, headcount and contracted Whole Time Equivalent (WTE): 2005 - 2016
• Cover MHOs: 2014 - 2016
• MHO WTE rates per 100,000 population, 2005 - 2016
• Age and gender of the MHO workforce: 2007 - 2016
• Ethnicity of the MHO workforce: 2008 - 2016
• MHO trainees: 2008/09 - 2016/17
• MHO leavers: 2009 - 2016
• MHO vacancies & shortfalls: 2006 - 2016
• Proportion of Social Workers who are MHOs: 2014 - 2016
• MHOs by type of Specialist Team: 2005 - 2016
• MHOs in Mental Health Teams: 2005 - 2016
• MHOs in Non-Mental Health Teams: 2005 - 2016
• Exclusive MHO positions: 2006 - 2016
• MHO work: 2005 - 2015 (MHO work was dropped from the 2016 report)
• Filled MHO posts, contracted WTE and weekly hours on MHO work by MHO type and team type: 2016
• Filled MHO posts, full contracted Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) and WTE per 100k population by local authority: 2006 - 2016
• Filled MHO posts, hours on MHO work and hours on MHO work per 100,000 population by local authority: 2016
• Filled MHO posts, contracted hours, hours on MHO work and percentage MHO work hours of contracted hours by local authority: 2016

This constitutes all the data on the MHO workforce collected by the Scottish Government from 2005 to March 2012, and subsequently by the SSSC from December 2012 to date.