As regulator for the social work and social care workforce we provide regular updates on the data we receive as part of the registration progress, some of which is published on the Public Facing Register (the Register).
This data provides an overview of workforce demographics, the locations and the areas of care in which social workers and social care practitioners provide services, and allows us to track trends when they occur.
The Register experiences minor changes every day as people move in and out of the workforce by registering with us or removing themselves from the Register, or as students join and/or leave Northern Ireland Degree in Social Work course.
Registrant data is also available to view in real time from the live Dashboard below
Quarterly register reports
These reports are compiled quarterly and are based on analysis of the Register taken from a specific day of each quarter.
– June 2024.
– March 2024.
Workforce development and reviews
From time to time we publish reports to inform our work. This can sometimes be as a result of our partnership working or a need to look at what data insights exist when we ask different questions from the Register’s data. We also routinely assess our workforce development initiatives through reviews and surveys with the social work and social care workforce and employers.
– Social care workforce reform – here you will find reports published from social research produced as part of this project.
– Social Care Technology Survey Phase 2 (2023).
– Profile of the Social Care Workforce November 2022.
– Social Care Technology Survey Phase 1 (2019).
– Social Care Matters Report (2017). (Need another version of this)
– Assessing the Economic Value of the Adult Social Care Sector July (2017).