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 that the detailed workforce information for 2020 was published on Thursday 28th September 2021.

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Workforce Intelligence Newsletter

October 2021

Welcome to the first of our new blog posts by the Workforce Intelligence (WI) team. The purpose of these posts is to update you with news about the latest publications, data sets and to provide further insight into the sector.

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We are pleased to announce the publication today of the 2021 Workforce Skills Report - available here 

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We are pleased to announce the publication today of the tables and charts for the Adults' services for 2020. The Adults' services tables are available here 

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We are pleased to announce that the breakdown of local authority post types for 2020 was published on Thursday 9th September. The spreadsheets present headcount and WTE (whole time equivalent) data of all filled posts in local authority social work services where those employed do not work in a registered care service. This therefore covers staff working primarily in field social work services.

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