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 2021
Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2020
17
Aug
2021
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2020.
July 2021
2019-2021 SVQ tables
28
Jul
2021
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) supports workforce planning in the social service sector by publishing information on the sector’s workforce. This includes data on those undertaking qualifications relevant to work 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 2019-21 data these tables also show historic data (2016-17 onwards) in order to allow comparison.
March 2021
Interactive Social Worker Data Tool 2019
05
Apr
2021
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.
December 2020
Adults' services workforce tables - 2019
18
Dec
2020
These tables look in detail at the adults' services workforce in Scotland. They supplement data already published in the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2019 Workforce Data.
Adults' services account for just over 70 percent of the Scottish social service workforce and are made up of the following sub-sectors:
- adult day care
- adult placement services
- care homes for adults
- fieldwork service (adults)
- fieldwork service (generic)
- fieldwork service (offenders)
- housing support/care at home
- nurse agencies
- offender accommodation services
Staff vacancies in care services 2019 report
11
Dec
2020
The Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have published new figures on the levels of staff vacancies in Scotland’s care services.
It is important to remember the data in the report comes from December 2019 and so reflects the situation in care services before the COVID-19 pandemic began in the UK and before the first case had been identified in the UK.
Our next report, which we will publish in 2021, will be based on data from 31 December 2020.
As with the previous report, this report provides a national overview of vacancies and recruitment difficulties reported by care services to the Care Inspectorate, the body which registers and inspects all care services. It also includes data on vacancies as a percentage of the total whole time equivalent (WTE) workforce.
