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, followed by more detailed information on each publication.
| Date | Publication | |
| Nov 24 | Interactive Social Worker Data Tool 2023 | Here |
| Nov 24 | Local Authority Post Types 2023 | 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 |
| Oct 24 | 2023-2024 SVQ Tables | Here |
| Sep 24 | Mental Health Officers time series data 2006 to 2023 | Here |
| Aug 24 | Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2023 Workforce Data | Here |
| Aug 24 | Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2023 | Here |
| July 24 | Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey - Dec 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 |
| Dec 23 | 2022 Children's Services Workforce Tables | Here |
| Nov 23 | Adults' services workforce tables 2022 | 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 |
| Aug 23 | 2022-2023 SVQ Tables | Here |
| Jun 23 | Movement of Day Care of Children Staff Report | Here |
| May 23 | 2021 Children's Services Workforce Tables | Here |
| Dec 22 | The Adults' services time series 2011 to 2021 | Here |
| Dec 22 | 2021 Detailed workforce information | Here |
| Nov 22 | Staff vacancies in care services 2021 | Here |
| Oct 22 | Local Authority Post Types 2021 | Here |
| Quarterly | Registration and Early Learning and Childcare data | Here |
August 2022
Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2021 Workforce Data
24
Aug
2022
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2021 Workforce Data.
Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2021
23
Aug
2022
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2021.
The Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2021 presents information on:
- The number of practising MHOs in post at 6 December 2021, 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.
2021-2022 SVQ tables
02
Aug
2022
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 2021-22 data these tables also show historic data (2017-18 onwards) in order to allow comparison.
July 2022
2020 Children's Services Workforce Tables
01
Jul
2022
This file contains The Children’s Services Workforce 2020 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 2020 Workforce Data.
June 2022
Residential Child Care Report 2022
14
Jun
2022
This report is the first of its kind produced by the SSSC. It provides an examination of trends within residential child care from 2010 to 2020 looking at changes not just in the workforce but also in services, providers and children in care
In 2020 we published a plan for putting care experienced children, young people and adults at the heart of what we do in 2020-2023. Part of that strategy included a commitment to ‘…develop a report examining the last 10 years of residential child care workforce data’. This report draws on workforce data held by the SSSC for the period 2010 to 2020 and also makes use of data on the numbers of residential child care services and the numbers of looked after children from data collected by the Care Inspectorate and Scottish Government. This report is the first of its kind produced by the SSSC. It provides an examination of trends within residential child care from 2010 to 2020 looking at changes not just in the workforce but also in services, providers and children in care.
January 2022
Interactive Social Worker Data Tool 2020
20
Jan
2022
This file allows you to interactively investigate data on practising social workers employed by local authorities. It uses data from our LA Post Types publication and adds in some contextual population data from National Records of Scotland. Guidance and background notes are included within the file.
