This report looks in detail at the children's services workforce in Scotland. It supplements data already published in the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2017 Workforce Data.

Children’s services account for just over one-quarter of the Scottish social service workforce and have the following sub-sectors:

• adoption service
• child care agency
• childminding
• day care of children
• fieldwork service (children)
• fostering service
• residential child care
• school care accommodation.

Three of these sub-sectors can be broken down into more detail. Shown in bold above, they are: day care of children (DCC), residential child care (RCC) and school care accommodation (SCA). We give an overview which includes all of these sub-sectors and breakdowns, but focus in detail only on three sub-sectors which can be split further. We also do a parallel analysis of early learning and childcare (ELC) services, which are a subset of DCC services.

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Data Tables and Charts

The tables and charts in this report are available in Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) and OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) format, plus all the report's data tables in non-proprietary Comma Separated Values (CSV) format. The CSV files are provided together in a compressed ZIP file. The provision of the data in these formats is intended to facilitate its analysis and re-use.