The Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey June 2024 and its associated tables have been revised and reissued. 

There was an error noted in the version of this report published on 08 November 2024 in Table 1. The total change % had failed to include imputed data from one authority from December 2023. No other tables or data were affected by this and the report has been corrected and republished. 

The reissued report can be found here.

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Further to the revision notice published on 20th November 2023, the following additional tables were revised on 27th November 2023.

Table 27: Estimated number of nurses by sub-sector and employer type, 2022
Table 28. Estimated number of teachers by sub-sector and employer type, 2022
Table 30: Response rates by sub-sector, 2022

The revised report can be found here: https://data.sssc.uk.com/data-publications/22-workforce-data-report/328-scottish-social-service-sector-report-on-2022-workforce-data

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In developing and quality assuring our processes ahead of our work on the 2023 workforce data report our analysis processes were reviewed and an anomaly was detected. It was found that when calculating some of the percentage rates on the characteristics of the workforce (e.g. ethnicity, gender, disability etc.) an incomplete version of the data set was used. This has resulted in the need to revise some of the data tables to correct these errors in the published report.

By identifying the underlying cause of the error we are implementing greater quality assurance checks into our process to prevent this in the future.
The affected tables and charts are listed below.

Table 14: Percentage of staff by gender and sub-sector, 2022
Table 15: Percentage of staff by ethnic classification and employer type, 2022
Table 16: Percentage of staff by ethnic classification and sub-sector, 2022
Table 17: Percentage of staff by disability and sub-sector, 2022
Table 19: Percentage of staff by job function and sub-sector 2022
Table 20: Percentage of staff by contract type and sub-sector, 2022
Table 21: Median weekly hours by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Table 22: Percentage of part time and full time workers by sub-sector,
2022
Figure 9: Histograms of the age of the workforce by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Figure 10: Histograms of hours by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Figure 11. Percentage of part time and full time workers by sub-sector, 2022

This report has been revised and all of the affected tables as listed above and associated text have been updated with accurate figures. Other text remains as originally published.

The revised report can be found here: https://data.sssc.uk.com/data-publications/22-workforce-data-report/328-scottish-social-service-sector-report-on-2022-workforce-data

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The 2022 Scottish Social Service Workforce Data Report and its associated tables have been revised and reissued.

There was an error noted in the version of this report published on 05 September 2023 in Table 6. The data in table 6 for the private and public sectors had been erroneously transposed leading to an anomaly between the individual elements, the column headers and the national totals. The main report and the data tables (xlsx, csv and ods) were corrected and republished on 06 September 2023.

The reissued report and tables can be found on here: Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2022 Workforce Data

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The 2015 Scottish Social Service Workforce Data Report and its associated tables have been revised and reissued.

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We have identified an issue with the age cohort data in the interactive visualisation and detailed workforce information spreadsheets for 2008-2013.

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