Building standards verification services - national performance and workforce: annual report 2023-2024
This report provides an overview of the performance of building standards verification services across Scotland and information on the professional workforce employed by local authorities to provide verification services.
16. Staff moving within or leaving the profession by reason
16.1.The number of staff moving within or leaving the profession in 2024 with a given reason is 50 which is an increase of 15 from 2023 to 2024. However this is still fewer than the number of leavers recorded in 2022.
16.2.The reasons include retirement (12), a public sector role outside the profession (15) and a move into the private sector (11). Those moving to another local authority building standards office (12) are recorded as leavers in this data even though these staff have not left the profession. See Table 12.
16.3.The number of staff leaving to go into the private sector or to another public sector role outside the profession has increased significantly from eight in 2023 to 26 in 2024.
16.4.An additional two staff left the profession in 2024 but no reason was given and therefore are not reflected in the table below.
Reason |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
Difference from 2023 (+/-) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Retirement |
29 |
17 |
12 |
-5 |
Local Authority Building Standards Office |
19 |
10 |
12 |
+2 |
Public sector role – out with Building Standards |
9 |
4 |
15 |
+11 |
Private Sector |
14 |
4 |
11 |
+7 |
Total |
71 |
35 |
50 |
+15 |
Contact
Email: buildingstandards@gov.scot