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Social work posts and vacancies: October 2007

14/11/2007

Scotland's Chief Statistician today published the results of a biannual social worker census held across all Scottish local authorities on October 1, 2007.

• The number of filled social worker posts has shown little change between April 2007 and October 2007, with 5,043 whole time equivalent (WTE) posts in April 2007 and 5,036 WTE in October 2007. However, since October 2006 the total number of filled posts has shown an increase of 1.8 per cent
• The number of social worker vacancies has increased by 8.4 per cent between April 2007 and October 2007, from 362 WTE to 392 WTE. However, the total number of unfilled posts has shown a decrease of 1.9 per cent between October 2006 and October 2007
• The proportion of all social worker posts that were vacant has increased from 6.7 per cent in April 2007 to 7.2 per cent in October 2007. However, the proportion of all social worker posts that were vacant has shown an overall decrease of 0.3 percentage points between October 2006 and October 2007