Reports and visualisations

Discover Skills for Care’s workforce intelligence reports and visualisations, offering data-driven insights into the adult social care sector in England using information collected in the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS). 

The intelligence reported here is only possible thanks to the care providers using the ASC-WDS. You can contribute to the voice of social care by registering for an account. There are lots of other benefits for care providers including access to funding, free management of training records, and access to the ASC-WDS Benefits Bundle.  

Find out more about the ASC-WDS. 

Local information

Reports displaying workforce information in your chosen local area. Geographies are split based on local authority area and NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB) area. There are visualisations and summary reports for each area.

National information

Reports covering the size and characteristics of the adult social care workforce in England at the national level. This includes the ‘The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England’ and the ‘Size and structure’ reports.

Regional information

Reports looking at the adult social care workforce within each region of England. There are nine regional summary reports alongside two data visualisations: one to compare variables by region and one to show workforce information one region at a time.

Regulated professions

See reports on key job roles using information from the ASC-WDS. These include registered nurses, social worker and occupational therapists.

Topics

View reports on key topic areas created using information from the ASC-WDS. Topics include apprenticeships, factors affecting turnover, and individual employers and personal assistants.

Data downloads

You can download data files in Excel format, showing our workforce estimates in tabular form. We also have a statistical appendix to accompany includes the ‘The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England’ report.

Publication calendar

To read about our upcoming publications, see our publication calendar.

Glossary

You can find a full glossary of terms that we use in our Workforce Intelligence reports and visualisations. This also includes variables from the ASC-WDS and how we calculate these, for example turnover and vacancy rates.

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