Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate has he made of the number of social care job vacancies in each region of the UK.
The information is shown in the attached table.
This is the latest information available from the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS), taken from local authorities as at September 2018 and from independent sector employees as at March 2019.
This data is published on Skills for Care’s website at the following link: