Care at home sector overtakes residential care as employer, for second year running.

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29 November 2021

Care at home sector overtakes residential care as employer, for second year running.

Caremark franchisees along with the rest of the sector are employing more and more people to care for people in their own homes, as their businesses continue to expand.

Recent new data from ‘Skills for Care’ revealed this sustained sector employment growth and according to the organisation’s latest ‘Size and Structure of the Adult Workforce in England’ update, the vast majority of the increase in adult social care jobs during the pandemic was in CQC regulated non-residential care services, including Caremark, which increased by 40,000 jobs or 7%.

The number of care home jobs remained broadly the same over the same period despite decreases in occupancy rates from 86% pre-covid to 77% in March 2021.

Analysis of figures from employers supplied to the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set also showed that the number of jobs in care homes for older people remained similar in 2020/21, but between March 2021 and June 2021 there is evidence that the number of jobs in this part of the sector had started to decrease.

The number of people working in adult social care was estimated at 1.54 million in 2020/21. The data also reveals that if the adult social care workforce grows proportionally to the projected number of people aged 65 and over in the population then the number of adult social care jobs will increase by 29%, or 480,000 jobs, to around 2.16 million jobs by 2035.

Skills for Care CEO Oonagh Smyth said: “Thanks to the continued support of thousands of social care employers who kept supplying their data through the pandemic we are able to publish our annual analysis. This gives a real sense of not only how big our sector is, but also the impact of the pandemic on the workforce which has done so much to keep the people they work with safe and well.”

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