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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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.

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We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2022 Workforce Data was published on Tuesday 5th September 2023 (available here.)

For more information or for any queries, please contact Tim Gronneberg , Senior Intellience Analyst at 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 Mental Health Officers (Scotland) 2022 Report was published on Tuesday 15th August 2023 (available here.)

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.

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We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2022 Workforce Data will be published on Tuesday 5th September 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 2021 Workforce Data.

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