JOINT STAFFING WATCH SURVEY

TABLE 2 : Recent trends in local authority staffing: Full-time equivalent staff numbers by service and source.
		Joint Staffing Watch (i)		Annual Staffing Surveys (x)		New Joint Staffing Watch (i)
		December	December	December	December	December	December	March	June	September	December
		1994	1995	1994	1995	1996 (ii)	1997 (xi)	1998	1998	1998	1998
Services continuing to be provided directly by authorities.
(iii)	Corporate services			3714	3930	3977	3866	3933	3818	3805	3775
(iii)	Central support services			15626	15604	13676	13436	13658	13480	12987	13137
	Planning and economic development	2608	2570	3246	3160	3363	3286	3384	3301	3366	3261
	Education - Teachers	53654	53258	57349	56152	53608	52565	53302	53303	52932	53878
	- Other education staff	24480	25144	22344	22553	22658	22691	22232	22199	22045	23012
	Social services (v)	38587	38299	38675	38863	39432	37241	37479	36919	36454	34738
	Housing	7829	8032	8213	8396	8482	8358	8345	8497	8587	8603
(iii)	Roads & transport			6058	6492	5139	5110	5212	5366	5349	5387
(iii)	Arts, sport & leisure			4467	4568	4895	4575	4291	4383	4660	4226
	Libraries, museums and galleries.	4569	4701	4070	4104	4291	4024	4138	4206	4200	4038
	Trading standards	621	605	779	801	752	738	687	702	708	723
(iii)	Environmental services (vi)			4054	3817	3359	2869	3104	3298	3246	3152
(iii)	DLOs/ DSOs			51597	53165	50678	50290	49718	49553	49460	49706
	Other (including non-comparable services from the pre-reorganisation JSW)	89890	89953	1068	838	1406	1294	1341	1348	1363	1113

Services provided by joint boards following reorganisation
	Police and related services (viii)	19480	19266	18712	19720	19392	19989	19776	19630	19665	19860
	Fire services (iv)	5264	5264	5794	7554	5423	5405	5696	5686	5720	5713

Services no longer provided by authorities following reorganisation
	Water	5137	5066
	Sewerage (ix)	1604	1529	6559	6699
	Other transferred services (vii)	340	340	349	340

Total all staff employed		254063	254027	252674	256755	240531	235737	236293	235689	234547	234320
Total excluding transferred services		246982	247092	245766	249716	240531	235737	236293	235689	234547	234320
Notes:-
(i)	In the pre-reorganisation Joint Staffing Watch, full-time equivalent (fte) estimates for part-timers were based on set conversion factors. In the December surveys and the new JSW, fte estimates are based on actual hours worked.
(ii)	The data for the December 1996 New Joint Staffing Watch comes from the data collected in the December 1996 Annual Local Authority Staffing Survey.
(iii)	The coverage of these services differs in the pre-reorganisation Joint Staffing Watch because of the different treatment of staff in Direct Labour and Direct Service organisations.
	In the pre-reorganisation JSW survey DLO/DSO staff were included with the service they supported. In the December staffing surveys and the new JSW they are a separately identified grouping.
(iv)	The December 1995 annual staffing survey figures included retained firefighters for a number of authorities, and are not comparable with the JSW figures, or with the December 1994 survey figures.
(v)	Excludes an estimated 275 fte staff transferring with the Childrens Reporters Service.
(vi)	Excludes an estimated 65 fte staff transferring from local authorities following the creation of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.
(vii)	Estimated number of staff transferring from local authorities to the Childrens Reporters Service, and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.
(viii)	In the pre-reorganisation JSW these figures include school crossing patrol staff. The new JSW and the December Staffing Surveys include school crossing patrol staff with Roads & Transport.
(ix)	Water & Sewerage were grouped together as one service category in the December 1994 and 1995 Annual Staffing Surveys.
(x)	The December 1994 and 1995 Annual Staffing Surveys significantly overestimate the fte number of teachers.