Health and Social Care Analysis have undertaken a programme of research to better understand the drug and alcohol workforce in Scotland. This programme has entailed both synthesising existing datasets and generating new data, which has resulted in the production of the following series of documents:

• A rapid evidence review of the literature around the workforce in drug and alcohol services in Scotland and elsewhere;
• A review of skills and qualification offerings relevant to this workforce, both in higher and further education settings as well as continuing professional development (CPD)/upskilling opportunities for those already working in the sector;
• A survey of all frontline services currently delivering on behalf of Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs), run between 20 November and 17 December 2021;
• A series of reference groups with select survey respondents, undertaken in March 2022, to gather further qualitative data.