Social Services: Employment
(asked on 22nd September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the nationality of people employed in care work sector in each year since 2015.
This question was answered on 22nd October 2020
Skills for Care collects data on the nationality of people employed in adult social care in England. The following table details the nationality trends from 2014/15 to 2018/19.
| 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 |
All job roles | 1,320,000 | 1,330,000 | 1,340,000 | 1,355,000 | 1,370,000 |
British | 83% | 83% | 83% | 83% | 83% |
European Union | 6% | 7% | 7% | 8% | 8% |
Non-EU | 11% | 10% | 9% | 10% | 10% |
Source: Skills for Care’s adult social care workforce estimates 2014/15 to 2018/19.