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Publication - Research and analysis

Social care - personal assistants: current data sources and future work

Published
26 July 2024
Directorate
Social Care and National Care Service Development
Topic
Building a new Scotland, Children and families, Communities and third sector, +11 more … Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Scotland, Cost of living crisis, Economy, Equality and rights, Health and social care, International, Programme for Government, Public safety and emergencies, Public sector, Scottish Budget, Work and skills
ISBN
9781836014676

Overview of key sources of data on personal assistants (PAs) in Scotland. The report supports the work of the Personal Assistants Programme Board and estimates the size of the personal assistant workforce in Scotland to aid with future workforce planning.

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Footnotes

1 These employers were in the process of recruiting a PA.

2 Although 7 of the 12 gave home addresses, it is not possible to say definitively in which local authority each worked. The local authority areas associated with these home addresses were Edinburgh (2), Fife (2), Scottish Borders (2) and Dumfries and Galloway (1).

Contact

Email: toria.fraser@gov.scot

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