We are able to announce today that the annual Mental Health Officers Accredited Official Statistics report will be published on the SSSC’s workforce data website on Tuesday 26^th August at 9:30am. This will contain data on Mental Health Officers (MHOs) working in local authorities from December 2024.

Last year’s report (with data from December 2023) can be found here:

Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2023 | Scottish Social Services Workforce Data

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We are pleased to announce that the Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey has been published today ( Friday 11th July 2024)

The report is availiable here

This report presents data on the whole time equivalent (WTE) number of social workers and social work vacancies in local authority social work services in December 2024. It is the fourth of our half-yearly reports on practising social workers (that is, main grade social workers and senior social workers).

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We are pleased to announce that, after a short delay, the Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey will be published on the morning of Friday 11th July at 09:30am.

Analysis of data at 6th December 2024.

This report presents data on the whole time equivalent (WTE) number of social workers and social work vacancies in local authority social work services in December 2024. It is the fourth of our half-yearly reports on practising social workers (that is, main grade social workers and senior social workers).

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Unfortunately we have to announce a delay to the date of publication of our next official statistics report on the WTE and WTE vacancies for social workers within local authorities. This is due to unanticipated problems with the processing of the data. We will announce a new publication date later this week.

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We are pleased to announce that the Workforce Skills Report was published on Monday 31st March 2025 at 9.30am.

You can view the report here.

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The staff vacancies in care services 2023 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 2023. 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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