On 12th July, Skills for Care published "The Size and Structure of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England". This publication provides data for 2022-23 on workforce supply and demand – including filled posts, vacancies and international recruitment.

The main findings include:

• The workforce started to grow again by 1% after shrinking the previous year
• The estimated number of vacancies on any given day fell to 152,000 – a vacancy rate of 9.9%
• Around 70,000 people were recruited from abroad into direct care-providing roles

Overall, the findings concluded that the adult social care workforce is growing again, but challenges remain.

You can find out more by reading the data summary and the press release.  You can also view Skills for Care visualisation of the data on their website.