In developing and quality assuring our processes ahead of our work on the 2023 workforce data report our analysis processes were reviewed and an anomaly was detected. It was found that when calculating some of the percentage rates on the characteristics of the workforce (e.g. ethnicity, gender, disability etc.) an incomplete version of the data set was used. This has resulted in the need to revise some of the data tables to correct these errors in the published report.

By identifying the underlying cause of the error we are implementing greater quality assurance checks into our process to prevent this in the future.
The affected tables and charts are listed below.

Table 14: Percentage of staff by gender and sub-sector, 2022
Table 15: Percentage of staff by ethnic classification and employer type, 2022
Table 16: Percentage of staff by ethnic classification and sub-sector, 2022
Table 17: Percentage of staff by disability and sub-sector, 2022
Table 19: Percentage of staff by job function and sub-sector 2022
Table 20: Percentage of staff by contract type and sub-sector, 2022
Table 21: Median weekly hours by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Table 22: Percentage of part time and full time workers by sub-sector,
2022
Figure 9: Histograms of the age of the workforce by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Figure 10: Histograms of hours by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Figure 11. Percentage of part time and full time workers by sub-sector, 2022

This report has been revised and all of the affected tables as listed above and associated text have been updated with accurate figures. Other text remains as originally published.

The revised report can be found here: https://data.sssc.uk.com/data-publications/22-workforce-data-report/328-scottish-social-service-sector-report-on-2022-workforce-data

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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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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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