Social Services: Vacancies

(asked on 8th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of workforce vacancies in adult social care in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last five years; and what steps his Department is taking to fill those vacancies.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 21st June 2021

The information requested is shown in the following table. The number of adult social care vacancies in Coventry prior to 2019/20 is not available in the format requested.

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

England

78,000

81,000

90,000

97,000

93,000

West Midlands

7,500

7,500

9,000

10,500

8,500

Coventry

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

600

Source: Skills for Care

We have run a national recruitment campaign across broadcast, digital and social media. The latest phase of the campaign ran from February to April 2021. We are also working with the Department for Work and Pensions to promote adult social care careers to jobseekers.

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