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.
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.