Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
Publications
Our workforce data, information and intelligence publications are all available from this section of the web-site. Immediately below are quick links to our most recent publications. More detailed information on each publication can be found on our Detailed Data page
| Date | Publication | |
| Feb 25 | Economic and social value of the UK adult social care sector: Scotland | Here |
| Nov 24 | Analysis of diversity data and research report November 2024 | Here |
| Nov 24 | Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey at June 2024 | Here |
| Oct 24 | Register annual report 2023 to 2024 | Here |
| Aug 24 | Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2023 Workforce Data | Here |
| Aug 24 | Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2023 | Here |
| Apr 24 | Digital Capabilities within the Adult Social Care Workforce in Scotland | Here |
| Feb 24 | The Distribution of the Social Service Workforce Report | Here |
| Jan 24 | The Fitness to Practise report | Here |
| Oct 23 | Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey | Here |
| Sep 23 | The 2022 Staff vacancies in care services report | Here |
| Sep 23 | Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2022 Workforce Data | Here |
| Sep 23 | Register annual report 2022 to 2023 | Here |
| Aug 23 | Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2022 | Here |
| Jun 23 | Movement of Day Care of Children Staff Report | Here |
| Nov 22 | Staff vacancies in care services 2021 | Here |
| Quarterly | Registration and Early Learning and Childcare data | Here |
August 2023
Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2022
15
Aug
2023
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2022.
The Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2022 presents information on:
- The number of practising MHOs in post at 5 December 2022, excluding long-term absentees.
- MHO trainees, leavers, vacancies and staffing shortfalls.
- Key characteristics of the MHO workforce (e.g. age) and the type of teams they work in.
2022-2023 SVQ Tables
10
Aug
2023
The Scottish Social Services Council publishes information on those undertaking qualifications relevant to work in the social service sector. This data is to help supports workforce planning in the sector.
These tables provide SVQ provision data separately for social services and healthcare (primarily Adult services) and Children and Young People frameworks as well as the proportion of SVQ activity made up by Modern Apprenticeships (MAs) in Scotland.
As well as the 2022-23 data these tables also show historic data (2018-19 onwards) in order to allow comparison.
June 2023
Movement of Day Care of Children Staff Report 2023
27
Jun
2023
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published the Movement of Day Care of Children Staff Report 2023.
This work was undertaken to improve our understanding of the movement of staff employed in day care of children services. In particular to better understand how staff move between services run by different types of employers. We also look at movement between registration categories and the locations of employments. The data from the register and the workforce collections do not include qualitative information (eg the views of registrants). The analysis is based solely on quantitative data, the numbers leaving employment and the characteristics of employments (the type of employer running the service, its location and the registrants’ category of registration).
May 2023
2021 Children's Services Workforce Tables
18
May
2023
This file contains The Children’s Services Workforce 2021 Tables. These tables look 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 2021 Workforce Data.
December 2022
2021 detailed workforce information
21
Dec
2022
This spreadsheet contains information about the Social Services Workforce collected from services regulated by the Care Inspectorate (via its Annual Returns in December) and from the annual December Local Authority Social Work Services Staffing Return in 2021.
November 2021
Adults' services time series 2011 to 2021
12
Dec
2022
Adults’ services account for over 68% of the Scottish social service workforce
These tables look at a time series from 2011 to 2021 of the adults' services workforce and show the change over time of the composition of adults’ services.
These tables also include an overview of the headcount, numbers of services, median number of staff and employer type for all adults’ services’ sub-sectors.
