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Publication - Impact assessment

Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment

Published
17 Mar 2026

Footnotes

  1. Monitoring data obtained from the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).
  2. Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2024 Workforce Data | Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
  3. There were 10,778 registered social workers as of 5th January 2026. Figures taken from: Quarterly Data | Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
  4. Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2024 Workforce Data | Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
  5. Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2024 Workforce Data | Scottish Social Services Workforce Data
  6. Scottish Social Services Council. (2025). Social worker filed posts and vacancies six-monthly survey. SW_Vacancy_Report_June_2025.pdf
  7. Chief Social Work Officers Annual Report Summary 2023/24 | Iriss
  8. Setting the Bar: towards an indicative maximum caseload for Scotland’s public sector social workers - Social Work Scotland
  9. Children’s Social Work Statistics: Looked After Children 2023/24 - gov.scot
  10. Children's Social Work Statistics: Secure Care 2023-24 - gov.scot
  11. Children’s Social Work Statistics: Child Protection 2023-24 - gov.scot
  12. Poverty Alliance International. (2024). Poverty-Alliance-briefing-for-International-Womens-Day-2024.pdf (povertyalliance.org)
  13. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. (2023) Poverty in Scotland 2023. Poverty in Scotland 2023 | Joseph Rowntree Foundation (jrf.org.uk)
  14. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. (2023) Poverty in Scotland 2023. Poverty in Scotland 2023 | Joseph Rowntree Foundation (jrf.org.uk)
  15. Scottish Government. (2022). People arriving from Ukraine – risk and need: public protection guidance. Overview - People arriving from Ukraine - risk and need: public protection guidance - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
  16. Unicef. (2022). Guidance for protecting displaced and refugee children in and outside of Ukraine. Guidance for protecting displaced and refugee children in and outside of Ukraine | UNICEF
  17. Cocker, C., Allain, L., Parker, J. and Bradley, G., (2013). Social Work with Looked after Children. Transforming Social Work Practice Series. (Second Edition). London: SAGE Publications, Inc, p. 86.
  18. Scottish Government. (2022). People arriving from Ukraine – risk and need: public protection guidance. Supporting documents - People arriving from Ukraine - risk and need: public protection guidance - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
  19. Scottish Government. (2022). People arriving from Ukraine – risk and need: public protection guidance. Disclosure Scotland - Unaccompanied children and young people - People arriving from Ukraine - risk and need: public protection guidance - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
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