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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The 2022 Scottish Social Service Workforce Data Report and its associated tables have been revised and reissued.

There was an error noted in the version of this report published on 05 September 2023 in Table 6. The data in table 6 for the private and public sectors had been erroneously transposed leading to an anomaly between the individual elements, the column headers and the national totals. The main report and the data tables (xlsx, csv and ods) were corrected and republished on 06 September 2023.

The reissued report and tables can be found on here: Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2022 Workforce Data

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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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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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