High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Monday, June 29, 2009
Workforce
There were 56,881 staff employed by Scottish Local Authority Social Work Services in October 2008. This comprised 26,132 full-time staff and a further 30,749 staff who were employed on a part-time basis. The whole time equivalent (WTE) number of staff was 44,219.
In October 2008, 72.9% of social work services staff (with a known age) were at least 40 years old. In addition, 3.3% were aged under 25 years of age.
Just over one per cent of all staff are reported as being from an ethnic minority group and under 2% declared having a disability. However, 18.3% of all staff had a not known/disclosed ethnic group and 22.3% had a not known/disclosed disability.
Source: Staff of Scottish Local Authority Social Work Services, 2008
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Note: In 2006, different counting methodology used to eliminate double counting of staff covering for absent staff. Therefore 2006 figures are not comparable with previous years.
In 2007, Glasgow provided information on their home care staff for the first time. Therefore, figures for 2007 are not comparable with previous years.
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