What the ratio of offenders to criminal justice social workers has been in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

The available information isgiven in the following table. The ratios represent the number of individual convictedoffenders to the number of qualified criminal justice social workers.
The ratios are not an indicationof the workload of criminal justice social workers. Individual offenders may receiveany type of court disposal including custody, community sentences and monetary penalties,and may receive more than one conviction in a given year. Criminal justice socialworkers provide services in relation to the supervision of community sentences andwider services including Throughcare and Voluntary Assistance for released and supervisedprisoners, diversion from prosecution and the preparation of reports for court (e.g.Social Enquiry Reports).
Ratio of Convicted IndividualOffenders1 to Qualified Criminal Justice Social Workers, by ApproximateLocal Authority Area2, 2000-01 to 2004-05
Local Authority
| 2000-01
| 2001-02
| 2002-03
| 2003-04
| 2004-05

Aberdeen3
| 45.4
| 48.4
| 45.6
| 48.6
| 40.0

Angus
| 75.0
| 64.3
| 82.1
| 70.3
| 64.9

Argyll and Bute
| 105.2
| 108.3
| 130.4
| 142.2
| 77.5

Ayrshire4
| 110.1
| 110.0
| 97.6
| 84.3
| 71.3

Clackmannanshire
| 31.5
| 30.5
| 37.1
| 48.0
| 45.8

Dumfries and Galloway
| 89.3
| 70.4
| 70.4
| 87.4
| 79.1