Social Services: Zero Hours Contracts
(asked on 2nd July 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of social care staff who are on a zero hours contract.
This question was answered on 5th July 2018
Through their National Minimum Data set, Skills for Care collect data on the number of adult social care workers in England on zero-hours contracts.
As at 2016/17 around a quarter (325,000) of the adult social care workforce were on zero-hour contracts.