Social Security Scotland teams and number of staff within: FOI release

Information requested

You asked for “A list of each of the departments and/or teams that exist within Social Security Scotland (including the number of them and names of them), with details of the number of staff that are part of each team and/or department.”

Response

The information you requested can be found in Annex 1 attached to this response.

The information has been extracted from the Scottish Government HR system. It is an administrative database which is continually updated when workers join and leave Social Security Scotland and personal details change. The latest workforce information published by Social Security Scotland on 15 September presents a “snapshot” of the data as it appeared on the HR system on 30 June: https://www.gov.scot/publications/social-security-scotland-workforce-information-june-2020/

The information used to form the response to this FOI was collected more recently and provides more detail than is routinely published by Social Security Scotland.

Annex 1

Division	Team	Total
Chief Executive Office		1
Clinical Operations		5
Corporate Services	Corporate Services Support	2
	Facilities Management	13
	HR	47
	Learning and Development	38
	Travel and Transport	5
	Corporate Services (General)	5
Finance	Corporate Finance	27
	Fraud and Error Resolution	48
	Head of Finance’s Office	3
	Operational Finance	21
Governance and Strategy	Analysis and Insights	4
	Business Support Office	6
	Change, Culture and Strategic Relations	31
	Data Protection and Information Management	1
	Governance	3
	Strategic Communications	12
	Strategy, Policy and Corporate Assurance	13
	Governance and Strategy (General)	23
Local Delivery and Client Experience	Client Experience	43
	Local Delivery	122
	Local Delivery and Client Experience (General)	8
Operations	Operations	537
Social Security Scotland (General)		6
Total		1024

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