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Expert adult social care insight
You’ll know we’re currently developing a new NMDS-SC service. This year our account holders will see what this new service looks like and be able to use it.
Part of this makeover is that the new service gets a new name, so we’ve consulted with users and the new name will be ‘Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set’.
A big thanks to everyone who’s helped us so far on this journey and we’ll keep you updated.
We're developing the new service using Agile working.
To help you see, understand and explore our workforce data at a local authority level we've introduced a new interactive tool.
You can select any of eighteen workforce characteristics and compare them between local authority areas.
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Skills for Care has worked closely with the Department of Health and Social Care and the AMHP Network to gain a better understanding of this key job role. Key findings include:
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Our workforce figures are being used extensively at the moment - particularly vacancy rates and jobs.
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Our data has recently informed a report and subsequent debate in the into the adult social care workforce in England which warns urgent action is required to reverse care work's poor public image and boost recruitment and retention.
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Our new quarterly briefing brings together the latest adult social care figures, organised in a way that's easy to cite and use.
The briefing has been designed for and with journalists.
We want to hear from you if you think we can improve it. Please email Paul Clarke, Media and Public Affairs Manager with any feedback.
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We interviewed David Brindle, Social Care Editor at the Guardian about the impact of our work for journalists in the sector and the opportunities that our data offers them.
'Before NMDS-SC, we didn’t know how many people worked in social care. We had no reliable figures for the size of the sector, which is clearly terribly important if you’re saying this is an important sector, this deserves more funding, more policy attention'.
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