Unfortunately we have to announce a delay to the date of publication of our next official statistics report on the WTE and WTE vacancies for social workers within local authorities. This is due to unanticipated problems with the processing of the data. We will announce a new publication date later this week.

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We are pleased to announce that the Workforce Skills Report was published on Monday 31st March 2025 at 9.30am.

You can view the report here.

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The staff vacancies in care services 2023 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 2023. 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 please to  announce the Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey at June 2024 can be viewed Here

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We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2023Workforce Data was published on Thursday 29th August 2024 (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 2023 Report was published on Tuesday 27th August 2024 (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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