Social Workers: Vacancies

(asked on 18th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department routinely collects on shortages of social care workers in each local authority.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 26th April 2023

Skills for Care collect data on advertised vacancies on behalf of the Department and publish vacancy estimates. Vacancy rates in the care sector are determined by natural churn, independent providers’ ambitions to grow, demand for care, trends in the wider labour market and workforce capacity pressures. As a result, vacancies may not be a good measure of workforce shortages and are not used as such by the Department.

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