High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Vacancies
There were 3,037 WTE vacancies in Scottish Local Authority Social Work Services in October 2007. This represents 8.5% of all posts that were vacant as at October 2007.
In terms of client groups, vacancy rates were highest for staff providing services to people with mental health problems (16.0%) and lowest for those providing services to children (7.4%).
Of the 3,037 WTE vacancies, 399 WTE vacancies were for qualified social workers. The proportion of all social worker posts that were vacant was 7.4%.
Source: Staff of Scottish Local Authority Social Work Services, 2007
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