Social Services: Recruitment

(asked on 4th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people entered the social care workforce between (a) February and May 2019, (b) February and May 2018 and (c) February and May 2017.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 10th June 2019

Skills for Care use the national minimum dataset for social care to make estimates about jobs in the independent adult social care sector.

They estimate that between February and May 2017 48,000 jobs in the independent adult social care sector were started by people recruited from outside of the sector. They estimate that 53,000 jobs in the independent adult social care sector were started by people recruited from outside of the sector in the same period in 2018. This includes permanent and temporary jobs. Data is not yet available for 2019.

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