The Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have published new figures on the levels of staff vacancies in Scotland’s social care services.

As with the previous reports, this report provides a national overview of vacancies and recruitment difficulties reported by care services to the Care Inspectorate, the body which registers and inspects all social care services.

The report is available here.

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We are pleased to announce the publication today of the tables and charts for the Adults' services for 2021. The Adults' services tables are available here 

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We have recently released an update to the Excel based Social Worker Data Tool (available here). The aim of this tool is to make the information on practising Social Workers employed by local authorities more accessible.

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We are pleased to announce that Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2021 Workforce Data was published on 30 August 2022 (available here).

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We are pleased to announce that the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) 2021 Report was published on Tuesday 23rd August 2022 (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 rescheduling the publication of the MHO report from August 16^th this year to August 23^rd. This is because of an unanticipated issue in completing an element of the quality assurance process this year. That work is now completing and as a result the report will now be published at 9.30am on Tuesday 23^rd August. If you have any questions about this delay please contact me, Mike Docherty, Workforce Intelligence Manager via email on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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