Social Services: Staff

(asked on 14th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many care workers have been employed in (a) London and (b) England in each of the last five years.


Answered by
 Portrait
David Mowat
This question was answered on 19th December 2016

The number of care workers employed in London and England in each of the last five years is not collected by the Department.

Skills for Care, the partner in the sector skills council for social care, in England, collects data on the adult social care workforce. The number of care workers employed in England and London in each of the last five years is set out in the table below:

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

England Care workers

700,000

735,000

775,000

810,000

800,000

London Care workers

160,000

190,000

195,000

205,000

205,000

Source: Skills for Care, Size and structure of the adult social care sector in England

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