Each day, thousands of decisions are made across social care that shape and influence how we deliver care.
Information is used to inform these decisions - whether it’s for future funding, to start an organisational change or about improving quality of care.
Skills for Care provide intelligence and robust data to help empower you to make plans for change based on hard facts.
Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set
The Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) is an online data collection service and the leading source of workforce information for the adult social care sector in England. It holds information on over 20,000 care providing locations and 650,000 workers.
Workforce intelligence
Our Workforce Intelligence team are the experts in adult social care workforce insight. See reports and data visualisations that are available for you to view and download at a national, regional and even local level.
Supporting sector bodies with workforce intelligence
Skills for Care produces intelligence to support local authorities and other sector bodies to help them understand and support their local workforce. They can use the information we publish to inform their workforce plans, market shaping strategy and understand their local workforce.