Social Work Orders Commenced

This data brings together in one place all orders at local authority level which make up the category "social work orders"

Not assessed

1. Community payback orders were introduced on 1 February 2011. Numbers were not collected for the year 2010-11 due the small numbers (estimated to be 300) involved.
   2. Fiscal work orders were introduced nationally on 1 April 2015.
   3. Data was not collected from 2015-16 onwards for community service, probation or supervised attendance orders due the small number of orders involved.
   4. From March 2025, data is no longer provided for "total social work orders".
   

These statistics are normally updated in the January after the data year in question.

These statistics help provide trends related to the workload of orders which local authorities deal with.

These statistics are considered of good quality as they come from recording systems which local authorities use for case management and internal monitoring. Checks are made to ensure any major differences from previous years are explainable.

Extensive quality assurance is conducted to ensure the data received from local authorities is as accurate as possible.

Revisions are made to earlier years data once a new year's data has been published. The originally published figures for CPOs in 2020-21 for Renfrewshire were estimated. These were replaced following receipt of the actual data.

Not assessed