We are pleased to announce that the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) 2023 Report will be published on Tuesday 27th August at 9.30am.

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 please to  announce the Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey at December 2023 can be viewed Here

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We have recently released an update to the Excel based Social Worker Data Tool which replaces the provisional tool previously published. The update was delayed due to the delay in the publishing of the mid-year population estimates (available here)

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We are pleased to announce that the next six-monthly SW WTE and WTE vacancy report will be published on Friday 12^th July at 9.30am. This report is based on data from December 2023 and will be published as an official statistics report.

If you have any questions about this forthcoming publication please contact Mike Docherty, Workforce Intelligence manager by email: 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 Distribution of the Social Service Workforce Report was published on Monday 5th February 2024 (available here.)

For more information or for any queries, please contact Matthew Taylor , Intellience Analyst at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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

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