Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of staff that have (a) left and (b) been recruited into (i) adult social care and (ii) children's social care in the last 12 months.

The Department is responsible for adult social care in England. Therefore, information on the children’s social care workforce is not held.

The information on the adult social care workforce is not held in the format requested. However, Skills for Care has published indicative, unweighted monthly data on net changes in the workforce size since March 2021. This shows that the number of filled posts employed by independent providers has fallen by 4.6% in total between March 2021 and February 2022.