Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
Publications
Our workforce data, information and intelligence reports are all available from this section of the web-site. Below are quick links to our most recent publications.
More detailed information and tables regarding our workforce data can be found on our Detailed data page.
August 2020
Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2019
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2019.
May 2020
Provisional official statistics on the Scottish social service workforce 2019
Notice: This provisional data was produced during Spring 2020 to assist with COVID planning that was required at that time. It has now been superseded by the Official Statistics publication Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2019 Workforce Data. Some data may differ between the publications as further cleaning and verification took place. To avoid confusion, we have disabled the download links below. We will publish an updated version of this data in due course. If you need to access this data as it was please contact us.
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published provisional Official Statistics on the social service workforce.
This is the first occasion that the SSSC has published provisional Official Statistics and we have done this to support planning for registered care services and local authority social work services in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
April 2020
March 2020
Staff vacancies in care services 2018 report
In January 2020 the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) published new figures on the levels of staff vacancies in Scotland’s social care services.
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 social care services. It also includes data on vacancies as a percentage of whole time equivalent (WTE) as a proportion of total WTE workforce held by the SSSC.
February 2020
Adults' services workforce tables - 2018
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 2018 Workforce Data.
December 2019
Interactive Social Worker Data Tool 2018
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.
