We are pleased to announce the publication of The Children’s Services Workforce 2015 (available here). This report looks at the workforce in children’s services in Scotland broken by sub-sector, and focuses in detail on the three sub-sectors which can be split further (day care of children, residential child care, and school care accommodation). It supplements data already published in the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2015 Workforce Data.

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We are pleased to announce that MHO workforce data tables and charts have been published for the full period for which this data is available (click here):

• MHO numbers, full contracted Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) and WTE per 100k population: 2005 - 2015
• Age and gender of the MHO workforce: 2007 - 2015
• Ethnicity of the MHO workforce: 2008 - 2015
• MHO trainees: 2008/09 - 2015/16
• MHO leavers: 2009 - 2015
• MHO vacancies & shortfalls: 2006 - 2015
• MHOs by type of Specialist Team: 2005 - 2015
• MHOs in Mental Health Teams: 2005 - 2015
• MHOs in Non-Mental Health Teams: 2005 - 2015
• Exclusive MHO positions: 2006 - 2015
• MHO work: 2005 - 2015
• MHO numbers, full contracted Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) and WTE per 100k population by local authority: 2006 - 2015

This constitutes all the data on the MHO workforce collected by the Scottish Government from 2005 to March 2012, and subsequently by the SSSC from December 2012 to date.

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We are pleased to announce the publication of a report on Staff Retention in the Scottish Social Service Sector. This report builds on the Experimental Statistics report published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) on staff retention in March 2016 (available here).

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We are pleased to announce the publication of a report on the Whole Time Equivalent data for the Scottish Social Service Workforce 2015. This report builds on the Experimental Statistics report published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) on whole time equivalents (WTEs) in March 2016 (available here).

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We have recently released a new 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 MHO workforce data tables and charts have been published for the full period for which the SSSC holds this data (available here):

• MHO numbers, full contracted Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) and WTE per 100k population: 2005 – 2015
• MHO trainees: 2008/09 – 2015/16
• MHO leavers: 2009 – 2015
• All other MHO data: 2008 – 2015

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