PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Services: Vacancies (10 February 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the vacancy rate in the social care sector in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Asked by:
James Wild (Conservative)

The most recent monthly data from Skills for Care indicates that the vacancy rate of directly employed staff in social care has reduced to 6.9% in January 2021 from 8.0% in February 2020.

Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
24 February 2021