Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
Detailed data
Below you can find more workforce and qualification data at a more in depth level. This data can be downloaded below.
Date | Publication |
Sep 25 | 2024-2025 SVQ Tables |
May 25 | Adults' services workforce tables 2023 |
Mar 25 | Children'services workforce tables 2023 |
Dec 24 | 2023 Detailed workforce information |
Nov 24 | Interactive Social Worker Data Tool 2023 |
Nov 24 | Local Authority Post Types 2023 |
Sep 24 | Mental Health Officers time series data 2006 to 2023 |
Oct 23 | Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey |
January 2025
Adults' services workforce tables 2023
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.
2023 Children's Services Workforce Tables
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.
December 2024
2023 detailed workforce information
This spreadsheet contains information about the Social Services Workforce collected from services regulated by the Care Inspectorate (via its Annual Returns in December) and from the annual December Local Authority Social Work Services Staffing Return in 2023.
We created this spreadsheet to provide you with more detailed information about the workforce than is currently available in the Workforce Data Report. The spreadsheet will allow you to interrogate the data in detail at a local authority area level
November 2024
Interactive Social Worker Data Tool 2023
The interactive Social Worker Data Tool allows you to interactively investigate data on practising social workers employed by local authorities. Guidance and background notes are included within the tool.
The latest version of the tool can be downloaded below
If you have any enquiries about these tables, please contact:
Zara Gall
Tel: 01382 723657
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Local Authority Post Types 2023
This file allows you to interactively investigate the Local Authority Post Types data. The file presents headcount and WTE (whole time equivalent) data of all filled posts in local authority social work services where those employed do not work in a registered care service. This therefore covers staff working primarily in field social work services. The data published includes a breakdown of the numbers of different people and posts across the whole of Scotland as well as by individual local authorities.
September 2024
Mental Health Officers time series
This page provides MHO workforce data for the full period for which data is available, as follows:
- Filled MHO posts, headcount and contracted Whole Time Equivalent (WTE): 2006 - 2023
- Cover MHOs: 2014 - 2023
- Age and gender of the MHO workforce: 2007 - 2023
- Ethnicity of the MHO workforce: 2008 - 2023
- MHO trainees: 2008/09 - 2023/2024
- MHO leavers: 2009 - 2023
- MHO vacancies & shortfalls: 2006 - 2023