This is one of a series of reports prepared under the provisions of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. The Act gives the Statistics Authority power to re-assess whether the Code of Practice for Official Statistics continues to be complied with in relation to official statistics already designated as National Statistics. The report covers the set of statistics reported in Mental Health Officers’ Report (MHOR), produced by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).

1.1.2 The previous assessment of this set of statistics was reported in Assessment report 86.  They have been re-assessed because responsibility for the production of the statistics (called the Mental Health Officers survey, Scotland) transferred from the Scottish Government to SSSC. This is discussed further in section 2 and annex 4.

1.1.3 Section 3 of this report adopts an ‘exception reporting’ approach – it includes text only to support the Requirements made to strengthen compliance with the Code and Suggestions made to improve confidence in the production, management and dissemination of these statistics. This abbreviated style of report reflects the Head of Assessment’s consideration of aspects of risk and materiality . The Assessment team nonetheless assessed compliance with all parts of the Code of Practice and has commented on all those in respect of which some remedial action is recommended.

1.1.4 This report was prepared by the Authority’s Assessment team, and approved by the Assessment Committee on behalf of the Board of the Statistics Authority, based on the advice of the Head of Assessment.

Statistics on Mental Health Officers in Scotland: Letter of Confirmation as National Statistics