These tables look in detail at the children's services workforce in Scotland. 

Children’s services account for 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.

Data Tables and Charts

The tables and charts in this report are available in Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) and OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) format. 

The provision of the data in these formats is intended to facilitate its analysis and re-use.

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Zara Gall
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