Expert adult social care insight
Adult social care related roles in the NHS: proposed changes, 2025
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The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England, 2024
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Monthly and quarterly tracking
Trackers for key workforce measures – recruitment and retention, filled posts and international recruitment.
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We publish and share detailed information about the adult social care sector. We add insight and interpretation via our written reports and have created data visualisations to make the data more interactive.
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We use the information collected in the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) to create robust estimates for the size of the whole adult social care sector and characteristics of the workforce.
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View reports on key topic areas created using information from the ASC-WDS. Topics include registered managers, social work and personal assistants.
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This page looks at workforce characteristics, issues, and trends such as demographics, pay, vacancy rates, and staff turnover.
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