Building Standards Workforce Data Collection Analysis Report 2022
The Building Standards Workforce Data Collection Analysis Report 2022 provides a national-level view of the challenges facing the building standards profession in relation to resourcing, development of competencies and levels of turnover.
15.0 Staff leaving the profession
15.1. The number of staff moving between local authorities or leaving the profession has increased by 23. The reasons include retirements, moving to another local authority,
leaving a building standards role entirely and also an increase in the number of moves to the private sector. See Table 11.
| Table 11: Leavers Reason | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Difference from 2021 (+/-) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retirement | 18 | 22 | 29 | +7 |
| Local Authority (Building Standards – Scotland)1 | 12 | - | - | - |
| Local Authority (Building Standards – Not Scotland)1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Local Authority Building Standards Office | - | 12 | 19 | +7 |
| Local Authority (Not Building Standards)2 | 9 | - | - | - |
| Public sector role – outwith Building Standards | - | 6 | 9 | +3 |
| Private Sector | 5 | 8 | 14 | +6 |
| Total | 45 | 48 | 71 | +23 |
Notes:
1 The fields ‘Local Authority - (Building Standards – Scotland)’ and ‘Local Authority (Building Standards – Not Scotland)’ were merged into a new field ‘Local Authority Building Standards Office’, from 2021 onwards.
2 Local Authority (Not Building Standards) was replaced with a new field ‘Public sector role – outwith Building Standards‘, from 2021 onwards’
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