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Publication - Impact assessment

Island Communities Impact Assessment

Published
17 Mar 2026

Footnotes

  1. As shown in the most recent data published December 2025. Social worker filled posts and vacancies six-monthly survey at June 2025: Scottish Social Services Workforce Data.
  2. SW_Vacancy_Report_June_2025.pdf
  3. Headcount and density figures are taken from the Interactive Social Worker Data Tool 2024.
  4. Scottish Government. (2025). National Islands Plan Annual Report 2024.
  5. The National Islands Plan Annual Report 2023 documents progress made towards the delivery of the National Islands Plan, as required by the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018.
  6. Social Worker Filled Posts and Vacancies. https://data.sssc.uk.com/images/SixMonthSurveyReport/LA_SW_WTE_Vacancy_Report_June_2023.pdf
  7. Iriss. (2025) Chief Social Work Officer (CSWO) Annual Reports 2023-2024. Chief Social Work Officers Annual Report Summary 2023/24 | Iriss
  8. Iriss. (2024) Chief Social Work Officer (CSWO) Annual Reports 2022-2023. CSWO Annual Report Summary | Iriss
  9. Scottish National Islands Plan 2020. Scottish Government and The James Hutton Institute. 2020. https://mappingrd342.shinyapps.io/online_tool/ 
  10. Rural social work in Scotland. Iriss Insight 47. Turbett, C. April 2019. https://www.iriss.org.uk/resources/insights/rural-social-work-scotland 
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