Analysis of the data as at 6^th December 2024

This report presents data on the whole time equivalent (WTE) number of social workers and social work vacancies in local authority social work services in December 2024. It is the fourth of our half-yearly reports on practising social workers (that is, main grade social workers and senior social workers). The last report was published in November last year with data from June 2024. That report can be downloaded from

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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 2023 Workforce Data.

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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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SSSC Have Your Say Workforce Wellbeing Survey 2025 report 

Our first annual Have Your Say Workforce Wellbeing Survey report provides valuable insights from people working in the social work, social care and children and young people workforce on a wide range of topics, including wellbeing, pay, terms and conditions, support, access to training and qualifications and general experiences of working in the sector.

The findings will help us and key partners, including Scottish Government, to find out more about the experience of working in this field, as well as informing the development of national policies that have an impact on this sector and approaches on how best to support the workforce.

The survey was carried out on our behalf by Progressive Partnership from January to February 2025 and 6,581 registered and some non-registered workers responded.

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31 March 2025

The Workforce Skills Report 2025 looks at the current provision of qualifications for the adult social care, children's residential care and early years workforce, and demand for those qualifications.  It also looks at barriers to undertaking qualifications.

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These tables look in detail at the children's services workforce in Scotland. It supplements data already published in the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2023 Workforce Data.

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