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1. There are more than 198,000 people working in the social care, early years and young people's workforce in Scotland.
2. More than 68,000 social service workers are employed by local authorities.
3. 66,430 social services workforce are employed by the private sector.
4. More than half a million people in Scotland receive care services at any one time.
5. Social workers and social work degree and postgraduate students must be registered with the SSSC.
6. The SSSC also registers residential child care workers, day care of children workers, workers in care home services for adults and managers of day care services for adults, housing support services and care at home services.