Social Services: Migrant Workers
(asked on 26th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many workers from (1) other EU countries, and (2) non-EU countries were employed in the UK's adult social care workforce in each of the last five years.
Skills for Care, the workforce development organisation for social care, collects data on the number of adult social care workers by nationality in England.
The number of adult social care workers from within the European Economic Area (EEA) and the non-EEA in the last five years is set out in the following table.
| 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Total workers | 1,265,000 | 1,290,000 | 1,325,000 | 1,335,000 | 1,340,000 |
British | 1,043,000 | 1,070,000 | 1,101,000 | 1,110,000 | 1,118,000 |
EEA (non-British) | 62,000 | 70,000 | 77,000 | 87,000 | 95,000 |
Non-EEA | 160,000 | 150,000 | 147,000 | 138,000 | 127,000 |
Source: Skills for Care’s adult social care workforce estimates 2012/13 to 2016/17.