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.
Evidence review and consultation analysis
This evidence review looks in depth at the workforce issues and opportunities faced by the adult social care sector. The review encompassed 190 academic, policy and other research and intelligence sources, and involved 13 stakeholder consultations.
Automated Data Transfer Discovery summary
A discovery was conducted by Lagom Strategy, on behalf of Skills for Care, between July and September 2021. It focussed on exploring the possible changes to the way national adult social care workforce data in England is collected. In particular, it explored the possibility that large volumes of data could be transferred in more automated ways.