Skills for Care: Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS)

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Skills for Care: Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS)

Measures describe a question asked to a participant during a survey or an item of information requested from a manager when they fill out a data return. For example, ‘Who do you live with?’ is a measure and the possible responses might be, mother, father, brother, sister etc.

Need/provision/receipt	Description of measure	Start Year	Age range	Age from	Age to	Informant	Multiple rater	Reporting term	Sweep title	Standard instrument	Question/Data item	Response scale	Dataset
Provision;	Number of control and restraint trainings	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASCWS Dec 2021	No	Number of instances of training completed in category – Control and restraint both accredited and non-accredited	Number of instances	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Date of control and restraint training	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Most recent date the worker completed training in category – Control and restraint	Date	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Completion of control and restraint training	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Has the worker completed training in category – Control and restraint	Yes No	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Training worker has completed	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Has the worker completed any of the listed training?	Control and restraint Dementia care Emergency Aid awareness Fire Safety First Aid Food safety and catering Health and Safety Infection Control Leadership & Management Learning disability Medication safe handling and awareness Mental capacity and deprivation of liberty Moving and handling Nutrition and hydration Palliative or end of life care Physical Disability Positive Behaviour and support Safeguarding Adults Dignity, Respect, Person Centred care Equality, Diversity and Human Rights training Any other not in the above categories Childrens / young people’s related training Confidentiality/GDPR Epilepsy Communication Skills Diabetes COSHH Mental Health Autism Continence Care Duty of Care Supervision / Performance management Stroke Complaints handling/conflict resolution Personal Care Activity provision/Well-being Sensory disability	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Type of people cared for at the service	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Type of people cared for at the service	Type of people	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Average hours worked by each worker at provider	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Past week	ASC-WDS rolling	No	The average hours workers in the previous week. Dependent on employment status and zero-hours contract.	No. of hours.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Gender of each staff member at provider	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	The worker’s gender.	Gender value	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Age of each staff member at provider	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	The workers age when the dataset was captured.	Age value	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of utlisations of services provider provides	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Utilisation (of service at provider)	Number of utilisations	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Capacity of service provider	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Capacity of the service at the workplace.	Capacity value	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Main service provided by social care provider	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	The main service provided by the workplace.	Service type	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Total employed staff in provider	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Sum of total staff across the organisation.	Number of staff. Also shows ‘Don’t know’, not recorded and no starters.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of staff records	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Number of staff records.	Number of records.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of permanent and temp staff provider employs	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Number of permanent and temporary staff (employees). Based on staff records.	Number of staff. Also shows ‘Don’t know’, not recorded and no starters.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of other staff provider employs	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Number of other staff employed. Based on staff records.	Number of staff. Also shows ‘Don’t know’, not recorded and no starters.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of agency staff provider employs	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Number of agency staff employed. Based on staff records.	Number of staff. Also shows ‘Don’t know’, not recorded and no starters.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of pool/bank staff provider employs	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Number of pool/bank staff employed. Based on staff records.	Number of staff. Also shows ‘Don’t know’, not recorded and no starters.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of temporary staff provider employs	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Number of temporary staff employed. Based on staff records.	Number of staff. Also shows ‘Don’t know’, not recorded and no starters.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of permanent staff provider employs	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No		ASC-WDS rolling	No	Number of permanent staff employed. Based on staff records.	Number of staff. Also shows ‘Don’t know’, not recorded and no starters.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of vacancies in provider	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Current	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Total number of permanent and temporary vacancies at the time of the workplace last update.	Number of vacancies. Also shows ‘Don’t know’, not recorded and no starters.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of leavers in provider (permanent and temporary)	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Past year	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Total number of permanent and temporary staff that left in the previous 12 months.	Number of staff. Also shows ‘Don’t know’, not recorded and no starters.	ASC-WDS
Provision;	Number of new starters in provider (permanent and temporary)	2005	16-120	16	120	Data manager	No	Past year	ASC-WDS rolling	No	Total number of permanent and temporary staff that started in the previous 12 months.	Number of staff. Also shows ‘Don’t know’, not recorded and no starters.	ASC-WDS

Aims

Skills for Care's Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) is recognised as the leading source of high quality data and workforce intelligence for adult social care in the UK. The ASC-WDS collects information online about providers offering a social care service and their employees. Social care providers register and then maintain information on the ASC-WDS website. Repots and visualisations cover topics such as recruitment and retention, sickness, pay rates, qualifications and demographics.

Institution

Skills for Care

Geographic coverage - Nations

England; National;

Start date

2005

Minimum age at recruitment

Sample Size

20,000

Sample

Study design

Data return

Sample details

Over 20,000 providers have signed up to the Skills of Care Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set and regularly contribute their workforce data. Approximately half of the workforce are recorded in the ASC-WDS. This coverage varies by care service, job role and geographical area. The Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set is the adult workforce data return for local authorities. In 2021, all 151 local authorities in England met the criteria of a full return for people working in their adult social services departments. This means Skills for Care receive data from every local authority with an adult social services department in England. Skills for Care estimates that there were 39,000 care establishments providing or organising adult social care in England in 2021/22, around 26,300 of these services were CQC regulated. In 2022, the ASC-WDS (NMDS-SC) had just under half coverage of all CQC regulated social care establishments.

Sex

All

Sample Characteristics

Occupational cohort

Sample size at most recent sweep

20,000 approx. care providers

Data Access

Skills for Care data and publications

https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/adult-social-care-workforce-data/Workforce-intelligence/publications/Data-and-publications.aspx

Complementary Data

Genetic Data Collected

Linked Data

HDR UK Innovation Gateway

Website

ASC-WDS website

Notes

Related Measures

Disability, Education and qualification, Ethnicity and race, Income/household income, Nationality and country of birth, Sickness at work, Transportation and commuting, Work and employment,

Study Code

ASC-WDS

Reference paper(s)

Skills for Care. (2021). Adult social care workforce estimates.

https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/adult-social-care-workforce-data/Workforce-intelligence/publications/Workforce-estimates.aspx

Funders

Department of Health and Social Care

Overview