Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
Leaver Survey
SSSC Leaver Survey Report 2025
The SSSC Register Leavers Survey Report gives an insight into leavers from the social work, social care and children and young people workforce.
It examines who is leaving the SSSC Register, why and where they are moving to. Real time data is now available on the Registration data Registration Dashboard
This report is based on data from 2,003 people who left the Register between August and December 2024. There was a clear relationship between age group and likelihood to respond to the survey, with older workers generally being more likely to respond than younger ones. We saw a similar pattern with the length of time that the leaver had been on the Register. Retirement, health and poor terms and conditions are the top reasons given for people leaving the Register.
This is the first collection of this data so the findings are preliminary until we have more to work with but we believe it is useful to publish the findings so far.
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