Social Services: Staff
(asked on 14th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many social care staff there are by gender in each (a) region and (b) nation.
The policy for health and adult social care is devolved across the United Kingdom, and the Department is responsible for adult social care in England. The following table shows the number of filled posts in adult social care, both for local authorities and the independent sector, in England, by gender and region in 2023/24:
Region | Female | Male |
East Midlands | 80% | 20% |
Eastern | 79% | 21% |
London | 77% | 23% |
North East | 81% | 19% |
North West | 79% | 21% |
South East | 78% | 22% |
South West | 79% | 21% |
West Midlands | 82% | 18% |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 81% | 19% |
Source: the data has been produced by Skills for Care using the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set.
According to Skills for Care data for local authorities and the independent sector, at a national level, 79% of the adult social care workforce were female and 21% of the workforce were male in 2023/24.