Registered managers
There are 22,500 registered managers in the sector.
77% had been in the sector for 10 or more years, and averaged 7.9 years in their current role. Around 22% left their roles in the past 12 months.
The vacancy rate of 11.4% was higher than the sector average.
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Social workers
There were 17,000 social workers employed by local authority adult social service departments across England as at September 2018, 950 in the independent sector and around 2,500 in the NHS.
The number of social workers employed by local authorities in England increased by 4.7% from 16,200 to 17,000 between 2017 and 2018 – this figure had been stable at around 16,000 since 2011.
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Registered nurses
As at 2018, there were 41,000 registered nurse jobs in the sector. They were one of the only jobs to see a significant decrease since 2012 (down 10,400 jobs or 20%).
This could be related to the recruitment and retention problem facing employers of registered nurses. 34% of nurses are estimated to have left their role within the past 12 months.
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