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How your data is helping to shape social care policy

Mark Moulding, Head of External Affairs and Policy, discusses how data shared via Skills for Care’s Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) is helping to influence decision-making for the social care sector.

Leadership programmes for aspiring directors

Jayne McCabe, National Leadership and Management Lead at Skills for Care, discusses the launch of two programmes designed to support aspiring social care directors.

Why we need more leaders from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds in social care

Munira Thobani one of Skills for Care’s board members shares her insights on the importance of encouraging diversity at senior levels in social care.

Registered Manager Reference Group

The Skills for Care Registered Manager Reference Group informs and provides feedback on Skills for Care's work, sharing their expertise, experience, advice and enthusiasm.

Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard

The Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard (SC-WRES) Improvement Programme supports your organisation to achieve an anti-racist workplace.

A year in care

We share a roundup of some of the most important and promising projects we’ve been working on in 2024.

How 21,000+ care providers are helping to shape the social care sector

As we prepare to launch our ‘Size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in England’ report, we look at how 21,000+ care providers are making a difference by using the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS).

Drivers of change

There are three essential elements that underpin the Workforce Strategy - the shape of care, the shape of work and the shape of education. Discover how the assumptions made for area will drive change in the workforce.

Skills for Care launches ASC-WDS data service and new Benefits Bundle

Skills for Care is celebrating the launch of the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS), funded by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), as the leading source of workforce intelligence for the adult social care sector in England.

Skills for Care’s pledge to supporting equality, diversity, and inclusion in social care

As Race Equality Week 2023 begins Oonagh Smyth, CEO and John Coughlan, Chair of Skills for Care discuss the organisation’s work to support equality, diversity and inclusion in social care and their vision for the future.