Fair Work Action Plan: indicator report 2025
Report setting out the most recent data available for the Fair Work Action Plan's (FWAP) medium-term indicators. These are used to monitor progress towards the outcomes set out in the FWAP.
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Footnotes
1 The analytical approach underpinning the framework, including the theory of change, are discussed in more detail in Annex A.
2 Data for 2022, 2023 and 2024 can be found on the Scottish Government website
3 A full list of the bodies covered can be found in the Notes & definitions section of the Scottish Government workforce: diversity and inclusion statistics reports.
4 Under the Scottish Government pay structure staff in Band A are more junior than those in Band C reflecting differences in role responsibilities, experience requirements, and seniority.
5 Data for 2022, 2023 and 2024 can be found on the Scottish Government website.
6 Data for 2022, 2023 and 2024 can be found on the Scottish Government website
7 Background notes about the information contained in the Public Sector Employment series are available on the about Public Sector Employment statistics - background notes webpage
8 In the Scotland’s Census 2022 a long-term health problem or disability is one that limits a person’s day-to-day activity, and has lasted, or is expected to last, at least 12 months. This includes problems that are related to old age. Respondents were asked to assess whether their daily activities were limited a lot or a little by such a health problem, or whether their daily activities were not limited at all.
9 Local Government and NHS employment accounted for over 80% of devolved public sector employment in June 2025 (47.4% and 34.2% respectively).
10 Public sector employment in Scotland: web tables - gov.scot Tables 8 and 9 provide the headcount figures for those employed in local government by gender. Proportion based on headcount figures rounded to the nearest hundred.
11 Funders may approve a limited exception to meeting the real Living Wage condition where a potential grant recipient genuinely cannot afford to pay the real Living Wage to part(s) or all of its workforce.
12 Data on the first nine months of implantation can be found at - Fair Work First: Grants Awarded - July 2023 to March 2024
13 An organisation may receive more than one exception, therefore these numbers do not represent the number of individual organisations with an approved exception
14 This data reflects active accreditations. If an accredited employer ceases trading, or otherwise closes their accreditation, they are not reflected in this data, so the trends may not reflect the total number of employers that became accredited in a particular year but instead reflect those that remain accredited today.
15 Further details on previous years is available from Table 5.4.2 of Supporting documents - Annual survey of hours and earnings: 2024. These tables also provide the estimates for the proportion of employees earning less than the real Living Wage.
16 No One Left Behind is the strategic approach to the delivery of devolved employability support in Scotland. Launched in April 2019 it aims to provide person-centred, place-based integrated support.
17 Fair Start Scotland was an employability support service which aimed to help unemployed people into sustainable employment. It was launched by the Scottish Government in April 2018 and closed to new referrals on the 31st March 2024
19 Further details can be found in the Michael Keoghan to Siobhan Tuohy-Smith: Request to suspend APS accreditation – Office for Statistics Regulation
20 Further details can be found in the Statistics Statement from the Chief Statistician on the Annual Population Survey
Contact
Email: susan.anton@gov.scot