Scottish Government

Related Areas within the Scottish Government

Scottish Government Analytical Services

• Statistics

• Economics

• Research

Other related areas in the Scottish Government

• Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics
• Scottish Household Survey
• Scottish Index of Multiple Sharing Deprivation
• Data Sharing and Standards including the Core Minimum Dataset

Links to websites other than the Scottish Government

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Other Government and Government Agency areas of interest

• National Statistics
  The UK's official statistics website.
• Northern Ireland Statistics
• Direct Government
  Information about the UK government, including links to all Government departments.
• Welsh Assembly Statistics

Other Scottish statistics websites

• Audit Scotland
  Audit Scotland checks that public sector bodies in Scotland are held to account for the use of public money.
• Children's hearings (SCRA) Scottish Children's Reporter Administration.
• Family Resources Survey
• General Register Office (Scotland)
  Contains Scottish population data.
• Labour Force Survey
• SCROL - Scotland's Census Results OnLine
  Information from the 2001 census.

International statistics

• Eurostat
  EU statistics website
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  Contains international statistics.

Scottish Local Authorities

• CoSLA
  The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities represents Scottish local government. The website contains contact details for the 32 Scottish councils.
• Performance Indicators
  Published by Audit Scotland for the Scottish councils, on an annual basis.
• Data Sources and Suitability
  The purpose of this section is to provide information on data sources that are currently used in the field of Children, Young People and Social Care. Some data is available at local authority level.
• Local Authority Social Work Services (LASWS) Groups
  The LASWS Children and Families Group and the LASWS Staffing Group are joint COSLA/Scottish Government groups responsible for liaison between Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Government on social work statistics issues.
  

Miscellaneous

• The Care Inspectorate - the work of the Care Commission has passed to this new unified independent scrutiny and improvement body for care and children's services
• The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) - is part of the Sector Skills Council, Skills for Care and Development (SfCD), which is a UK partnership of six bodies. As the Scottish partner of SfCD, the SSSC have responsibility for workforce planning and workforce development.
• Childcare Information Services (ChIS) in Scotland - information for parents and carers, employers and childcare providers
• Scottish Childcare - childcare information
• Child protection statistics (UK)
• Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC)
• Changing Lives - an archive for all products and information from the Scottish Government's Changing Lives change programme for social work services in Scotland, based on the 21st century review of social work. It supercedes the Social Work Scotland website.