We are able to announce today that the annual Mental Health Officers National Statistics report will be published on the SSSC’s workforce data website on Tuesday 15^th August at 9:30am. This will contain data on Mental Health Officers (MHOs) working in local authorities from December 2022. Last year’s report (with data from December 2021) can be found here:

 https://data.sssc.uk.com/data-publications/23-mental-health-officers-reports/292-mental-health-officers-scotland-report-2021.

 And MHO time series data covering the period 2005-21 can be found here:

 https://data.sssc.uk.com/local-level-data/156-mho-time-series-data

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We are pleased to announce that the detailed workforce information for 2021 was published on Wednesday 21st December 2022.

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We are pleased to announce the publication of the Adults' services time series 2011 to 2021.

These tables look at a time series from 2011 to 2021 of the adults' services workforce and show the change over time of the composition of adults’ services.

These tables also include an overview of the headcount, numbers of services, median number of staff and employer type for all adults’ services’ sub-sectors.

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The Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have published new figures on the levels of staff vacancies in Scotland’s social care services.

As with the previous reports, this report provides a national overview of vacancies and recruitment difficulties reported by care services to the Care Inspectorate, the body which registers and inspects all social care services.

The report is available here.

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We are pleased to announce the publication today of the tables and charts for the Adults' services for 2021. The Adults' services tables are available here 

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We have recently released an update to the Excel based Social Worker Data Tool (available here). The aim of this tool is to make the information on practising Social Workers employed by local authorities more accessible.

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