Source: Skills for Care - ASC-WDS - See Table 2 in Reference Data Tables and previous NMDS-SC Publications
Adult Community Care contains the largest proportion of jobs, comprising of 35.8% of adult social care jobs in local authorities, in 2019.
The number of jobs in each service group within local authorities saw increases between 2018 and 2019 except for Adult Day Care and Domiciliary Care which decreased by 12.1% (1,100 jobs) and 2.7% (500 jobs) respectively since 2018. The largest proportional increase and number of jobs was seen in the Other care service group (up 5.8% or 1,500 jobs on 2018 figures) which includes ‘Any other services’ and ‘Head office services’. This was closely followed by the Adult Residential Care group (up 4.2% since 2018).
Since 2011 the number of Residential Care and Day Care service jobs has more than halved (52.3% and 51.8% respectively). Jobs in Domiciliary, Community and Other service groups have also seen decreases in this period, but at a slower rate. 2016 saw the first year in which the number of jobs in Domiciliary Care within local authorities is higher than the number of jobs in Residential Care, this pattern as continued through to 2019.
As can be seen in Figure 2.8, when looking at the number of jobs in each service group as a proportion of all service jobs there has been a shift away from Residential and Day Care jobs into Community and Other care services jobs between 2011 and 2019.