High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Thursday, June 25, 2009
Vacancies
There were 2,806 WTE vacancies in Scottish Local Authority Social Work Services in October 2008. This represents 7.9% of all posts that were vacant as at October 2008.
In terms of client groups, vacancy rates were highest for staff providing services to people with mental health problems (18.1%) and lowest for those providing generic services (6.1%).
Of the 2,806 WTE vacancies, 384 WTE vacancies were for qualified social workers. The proportion of all social worker posts that were vacant was 7.0%.
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Source: Staff of Scottish Local Authority Social Work Services, 2008
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