Further to the revision notice published on 20th November 2023, the following additional tables were revised on 27th November 2023.

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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.

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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.

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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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