Growth and development.pdf

Appendix 1Staffing by category of employee and whole time equivalent (WTE) as at October 1999 andOctober 2000This table has been compiled from local authority staffing returns for October 1999 and 2000to the Scottish Executive Social Work Statistics Division.The category ‘Managers/central staff’ includes: Director; heads of service; service managers;other senior staff; planning, commissioning and contracting staff; registration/inspection officers;research & information officers; human resources staff, including training; finance staff.The category ‘Frontline staff’ includes: social workers; occupational therapists; communityservice staff; supervised attendance staff; advocacy/rights staff; social work assistants;fieldwork staff; residential and day care staff; care managers; welfare rights officers; wardens.‘Other’ includes administrative staff and any other staff who are not covered by the above twocategories. Some local authorities have large numbers of ‘other’ staff while others have smallnumbers. Such differences appear to be largely the result of which category staff are assigned to.As well as ‘frontline staff’, some senior social workers and other ‘managers’ may also workdirectly with service users and this varies across authorities.The figures in the staffing table have been rounded independently, as a result, the totals shownmay not match the sum of the categories.There was a change in how posts were allocated to categories between 1999 and 2000 sodirect comparisons between the two years may not be accurate.Vacancy figures for 2001 are provisional and refer to the situation as at 1 October 2001.275