Skills for Care has launched workforce trackers offering adult social care employers an ongoing source for monitoring trends.
The online tool will also allow care providers, policymakers and individuals to monitor workforce national and regional trends.
The trackers use the organisation’s latest ‘Size and structure of the adult social care workforce in England’ data to track key trends like vacancies, number of jobs, and days lost to sickness that can be charted on a monthly basis.
The tool can be filtered to view data for each region across England. The system provides a number of important insights on the adult social care workforce, including charting the impact Covid-19 is having on the workforce.
Skills for Care said it will continue to develop the new tracking tool in response to any further changes in policy and conditions for the social care workforce.
The data shows that before Covid-19 around 2.7 per cent of days were lost to sickness nationally, but since the pandemic that figure has risen to 5.3 per cent - a 98 per cent increase.
National vacancy rates meanwhile are lower than they were pre-Covid at a rate of 7.4 per cent.
The data shows that there has been a decrease in jobs in adult social care between March 2021 to June 2021 nationwide.
“Thanks to the continued support of thousands of social care employers who kept supplying their data to the Skills for Care Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set through the pandemic we are able to publish annual and now monthly analysis,” said chief executive Oonagh Smyth (pictured).
“The monthly workforce trackers provide those employers with an easy way to keep up-to-date with workforce data on a monthly basis and understand the impact of the pandemic on our colleagues who have done so much to support us, our families, friends and communities,” she added.
The monthly tracking data is available at https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/monthly-tracking and the size and structure data is available here at https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/sizeandstructure.
