Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
Announcements
Announcement of the publication of the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2023 Workforce Data
We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on the 2023 Workforce Data will be published on Thursday 29th August 2024 at 9.30am.
For more information, please contact Tim Gronneberg at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Last year's report is available on the site at: Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2022 Workforce Data
Announcement of publication date for the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2023
We are pleased to announce that the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) 2023 Report will be published on Tuesday 27th August at 9.30am.
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.
Announcement of the publication date for the Scottish Social Service Sector: Six Monthly Social Work and Social Work WTE (whole time equivalent) vacancy report
We are pleased to announce that the next six-monthly SW WTE and WTE vacancy report will be published on Friday 12th 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.
Publication of the Distribution of the Social Service Workforce Report
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.
Publication of the 2022 Staff vacancies in care services report
The staff vacancies in care services 2022 report is jointly published by the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). This latest report provides data on vacancies reported by care services as at 31 December 2022. It shows the number of registered care services with a vacancy, the number of actual vacancies that services say they had using whole time equivalent (WTE) data, and data on the reasons why services have reported that vacancies are hard to fill.
The report is available to download here.