Publications

Our workforce data, information and intelligence reports are all available from this section of the web-site. Immediately below are quick links to our most recent publications. 

 

Date Publication
Sep 25 Scottish Social Service Sector Report on 2024 Workforce Data
Aug 25 Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2024
Aug 25 SSSC Fitness to Practise Data Snapshot Report 2024/25
July 25 Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey at December 2024
Apr 25 SSSC Register Leavers Survey Report
Apr 25 SSSC Have Your Say Survey
Mar 25 Workforce Skills Report 2025
Mar 25 Staff vacancies in care services report 2023
Feb 25 Economic and social value of the UK adult social care sector: Scotland
Nov 24 Analysis of diversity data and research report November 2024
Nov 24 Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey at June 2024
Oct 24 Register annual report 2023 to 2024
Aug 24 Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2023 Workforce Data
Aug 24 Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2023
Apr 24 Digital Capabilities within the Adult Social Care Workforce in Scotland
Feb 24 The Distribution of the Social Service Workforce Report
Jan 24 The Fitness to Practise report
Quarterly Quarterly Registration and Early Learning and Childcare data

 

September 2017

Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2016 Workforce Data

14 Sep 2017

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2016 Workforce Data.

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August 2017

Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2016

29 Aug 2017

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today published the Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report 2016.

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April 2017

SVQs in the Scottish Social Service Sector 2015/16

28 Apr 2017

This report is one of a series of annual reports on Scottish Vocational Qualifications provision in Scotland, produced regularly for the purposes of workforce planning since 2006.

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March 2017

The Children's Services Workforce 2015

27 Mar 2017

This report looks in detail at the children's services workforce in Scotland. It supplements data already published in the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2015 Workforce Data.

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January 2017

Staff retention – update

27 Jan 2017

This short report builds on the Experimental Statistics report published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) on staff retention in March 2016 (available here).

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Whole time equivalent (WTE) data - update

27 Jan 2017

This short report builds on the Experimental Statistics report published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) on whole time equivalents (WTEs) in March 2016 (available here).

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