The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has published its latest Register snapshot report giving a unique insight into the social work, social care and children and young people workforce on their Register.

The percentage of care services reporting staff vacancies dropped again in 2024, two years after a record high.

We’ve published our latest six-monthly survey report on Scotland’s social work workforce. The report provides detail on the number of filled and vacant social worker and senior social worker posts in local authorities in June 2025.

Scotland’s social service workforce continued to grow in 2024, reaching 214,750, the highest level since records began in 2008. That’s according to a new report published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today.

The number of mental health officer (MHO) posts in 2024 was the highest since records began in 2005, however there continues to be a shortfall to meet demand, according to a new report published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today.

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has published its second Fitness to Practise Snapshot Report, providing key insights into the fitness to practise process and investigations over the past year.

We’ve published our latest six-monthly survey report on Scotland’s filled and vacant social worker and senior social worker posts in local authorities, presenting data from December 2024.

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has published the SSSC Register Leavers Survey Report which gives an insight into leavers from the social work, social care and children and young people workforce.  

Our first annual Have Your Say Workforce Wellbeing Survey report provides valuable insights from people working in the social work, social care and children and young people workforce on a wide range of topics, including wellbeing, pay, terms and conditions, support, access to training and qualifications and general experiences of working in the sector. 

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has published its latest Workforce Skills Report (WSR), providing an in-depth analysis of the current training provision for the social work, social care and children and young people sector.