TABLE 2: Recent trends in local authority staffing: Full-time equivalent staff numbers by service and source |
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Joint Staffing Watch (i) |
Annual Staffing Surveys (x) |
New Joint Staffing Watch (i) |
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December |
December |
December |
December |
December |
December |
March |
June |
September |
December |
March |
June |
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1994 |
1995 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 (ii) |
1997 (xi) |
1998 |
1998 |
1998 |
1998 |
1999 |
1999 |
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Services continuing to be provided directly by authorities. |
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(iii) |
Corporate services |
3,714 |
3,930 |
3,977 |
3,866 |
3,933 |
3,818 |
3,805 |
3,775 |
3,675 |
3,629 |
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(iii) |
Central support services |
15,626 |
15,604 |
13,676 |
13,436 |
13,658 |
13,480 |
12,987 |
13,137 |
13,234 |
13,301 |
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Planning and economic development |
2,608 |
2,570 |
3,246 |
3,160 |
3,363 |
3,286 |
3,384 |
3,301 |
3,366 |
3,261 |
3,303 |
3,322 |
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Education - Teachers |
53,654 |
53,258 |
57,349 |
56,152 |
53,608 |
52,565 |
53,302 |
53,303 |
52,932 |
53,878 |
54,012 |
53,586 |
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- Other education staff |
24,480 |
25,144 |
22,344 |
22,553 |
22,658 |
22,691 |
22,232 |
22,199 |
22,045 |
23,012 |
23,273 |
23,107 |
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Social Work (v) |
38,587 |
38,299 |
38,675 |
38,863 |
39,432 |
37,241 |
37,479 |
36,919 |
36,454 |
34,738 |
34,738 |
34,620 |
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Housing |
7,829 |
8,032 |
8,213 |
8,396 |
8,482 |
8,358 |
8,345 |
8,497 |
8,587 |
8,603 |
8,612 |
8,542 |
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(iii) |
Roads & transport |
6,058 |
6,492 |
5,139 |
5,110 |
5,212 |
5,366 |
5,349 |
5,387 |
5,226 |
5,183 |
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(iii) |
Arts, sport & leisure |
4,467 |
4,568 |
4,895 |
4,575 |
4,291 |
4,383 |
4,660 |
4,226 |
4,242 |
4,229 |
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Libraries, museums and galleries. |
4,569 |
4,701 |
4,070 |
4,104 |
4,291 |
4,024 |
4,138 |
4,206 |
4,200 |
4,038 |
3,972 |
4,077 |
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Trading standards |
621 |
605 |
779 |
801 |
752 |
738 |
687 |
702 |
708 |
723 |
708 |
715 |
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(iii) |
Environmental services (vi) |
4,054 |
3,817 |
3,359 |
2,869 |
3,104 |
3,298 |
3,246 |
3,152 |
3,050 |
3,109 |
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(iii) |
DLOs/ DSOs |
51,597 |
53,165 |
50,678 |
50,290 |
49,718 |
49,553 |
49,460 |
49,706 |
49,802 |
50,484 |
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Other (including non-comparable services from the pre-reorganisation JSW) |
89,890 |
89,953 |
1,068 |
838 |
1,406 |
1,294 |
1,341 |
1,348 |
1,363 |
1,113 |
1,128 |
1,372 |
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Services provided by joint boards following reorganisation |
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Police and related services (viii) |
19,480 |
19,266 |
18,712 |
19,720 |
19,392 |
19,989 |
19,776 |
19,630 |
19,665 |
19,860 |
19,753 |
19,839 |
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Fire services (iv) |
5,264 |
5,264 |
5,794 |
7,554 |
5,423 |
5,405 |
5,696 |
5,686 |
5,720 |
5,713 |
5,705 |
5,693 |
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Services no longer provided by authorities following reorganisation |
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Water |
5,137 |
5,066 |
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Sewerage (ix) |
1,604 |
1,529 |
6,559 |
6,699 |
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Other transferred services (vii) |
340 |
340 |
349 |
340 |
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Total all staff employed |
254,063 |
254,027 |
252,674 |
256,755 |
240,531 |
235,737 |
236,293 |
235,689 |
234,547 |
234,320 |
234,434 |
234,808 |
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Total excluding transferred services |
246,982 |
247,092 |
245,766 |
249,716 |
240,531 |
235,737 |
236,293 |
235,689 |
234,547 |
234,320 |
234,434 |
234,808 |
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Notes:- |
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(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. |
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(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. |
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(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. |
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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. |
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(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. |
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(v) |
Excludes an estimated 275 fte staff transferring with the Childrens Reporters Service. |
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(vi) |
Excludes an estimated 65 fte staff transferring from local authorities following the creation of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency. |
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(vii) |
Estimated number of staff transferring from local authorities to the Childrens Reporters Service, and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency. |
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(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. |
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(ix) |
Water & Sewerage were grouped together as one service category in the December 1994 and 1995 Annual Staffing Surveys. |
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(x) |
The December 1994 and 1995 Annual Staffing Surveys significantly overestimate the fte number of teachers. |
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(xi) |
The data for the December 1997 New Joint Staffing Watch comes from the data collected in the December 1997 Annual Local Authority Staffing Survey. |
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