Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
Detailed data
Since March 2012 we have published more detailed workforce data at a local authority level. This data can be downloaded below. Each file comes with its own guidance document explaining what data is available inside it.
August 2022
Mental Health Officers time series data
27
Aug
2022
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 - 2022
- Cover MHOs: 2014 - 2022
- Age and gender of the MHO workforce: 2007 - 2022
- Ethnicity of the MHO workforce: 2008 - 2022
- MHO trainees: 2008/09 - 2022/2023
- MHO leavers: 2009 - 2022
- MHO vacancies & shortfalls: 2006 - 2022
July 2022
2020 Children's Services Workforce Tables
01
Jul
2022
This file contains The Children’s Services Workforce 2020 Tables. These tables look at the workforce in children’s services in Scotland broken by sub-sector, and focuses in detail on the three sub-sectors which can be split further (day care of children, residential child care, and school care accommodation). It supplements data already published in the Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2020 Workforce Data.
January 2022
Interactive Social Worker Data Tool 2020
20
Jan
2022
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.
October 2021
2020 detailed workforce information
28
Oct
2021
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 2020.
September 2021
The Adults' services workforce tables - 2020
21
Sep
2021
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 2020 Workforce Data.
Local authority post types 2020
09
Sep
2021
These spreadsheets present 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.
