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

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Zara Gall Tel: 01382 723657

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If you have general enquiries about the SSSC’s workforce intelligence publications, please contact:

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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

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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.

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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

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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 2022 Workforce Data.

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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 2022 Workforce Data.

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