The Scottish Third Sector Tracker — wave three infographic summary (Spring 2022)
This infographic summary presents the key findings from the third wave of the Scottish Third Sector Tracker. Scotland’s third sector organisations continued to face challenges in spring 2022, particularly in regard to staffing, volunteer recruitment and management, and finance… Read more
The Scottish Third Sector Tracker — wave 3 open-questions analysis (Spring 2022)
The third wave of the tracker surveyed 457 organisations from across Scotland, which represent a broad range of sub-sectors and organisational types. This wave of the survey included three open-ended questions asking respondents about: . the main challenges that rising costs a… Read more
The Scottish Third Sector Tracker — wave three data tables (Spring 2022)
These tables present the in-depth findings from the third wave of the Scottish Third Sector Tracker. The percentages are based on the weighted figure, not the raw totals. Read more
The Perfect Storm: Living on Universal Credit during the Cost of Living Crisis
The last few years have been extraordinarily tough. The pandemic left 1.8 million people in Scotland financially worse off, and even before the most recent increase in the energy price cap one in three people found their bills unaffordable. Now people are faced with a perfect sto… Read more
Citizens Advice cost of living data dashboard
"Britain is facing its biggest cost of living crisis in decades. Citizens Advice has seen more people coming to us for help with crisis support, energy problems and not having enough money to make ends meet than ever before. In this dashboard we share insights from across our ser… Read more
Mental Health: Exploring the Current Landscape
Discussions about mental health have become increasingly mainstream in recent years, with contributions from all sectors and levels of society. Changes in legislation aligned to human rights coupled with state aspirations to achieve parity of esteem between physical and mental he… Read more
Profiting from Care: Why Scotland can't afford privatised social care
STUC commissioned report which suggests that Scotland’s large private social care providers are associated with lower wages, more complaints about care quality, and higher levels of rent extraction than public and third sector care providers. Read more
Scotland’s Labour Market: People, Places and Regions – background tables and charts
Background tables and charts related to Scotland’s Labour Market - People, Places and Regions 2020/21. Includes tables showing breakdowns of workforce by private, pubilc and third sector, including numbers of employees, number of women, disability and part-time working - see t… Read more
Annual survey of hours and earnings 2021
Summary of earnings statistics from the annual survey of hours and earnings (ASHE) published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The data tables include breakdowns of Living Wage figures by public. private and 'not for profit' sectors. Read more