On Thursday 9th October, Skills for Care published their annual State of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England report, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the adult social care workforce in England and the characteristics of the 1.59 million people working in it.
You can read the report here as well as the Skills for Care press release here.
These are some of the key points from the report:
- There were improvements in the workforce for the second year - with more filled posts, fewer vacancies, the lowest turnover since 2014/15 and a record number of men working in the sector.
- These improvements were mainly driven by international rather than domestic recruitment - and there is evidence that the supply of international recruits is declining.
- Domestic recruitment and retention challenges persist, with 70,000 fewer British people in the workforce compared with two years previously.
- Pay for care workers was, on average, 58p an hour more than the National Living Wage - and more than 80% of jobs in the economy pay more.
- The number of apprenticeship starts has fallen by 75% since 2016/17.
If you haven’t already registered for the Skills for Care online launch event on Thursday from 9.30 until 11.30am you can sign up here.
Finally, if you haven't already seen the Workforce Strategy for adult social care that they developed in collaboration with the sector and published in July, you can find it here. Skills for Care are now in the process of implementing the Strategy, and a number of commitments made by them and other organisations have already been delivered.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch. The data experts in the Skills for Care Workforce Intelligence team would be very happy to help. Contact Elizabeth Lowe on 07767 115 736 or email elizabeth.lowe@skillsforcare.org.uk
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