1. Recruiting and retaining domiciliary care staff post Brexit
Thea Seville: Director of Workforce Intelligence and Business Development
Skills for Care

2. The National Minimum Data Set for Social Care reveals what we know about the current make-up of the ASC sector and workforce:
7% of adult social care workers currently working in England are from the European Union
These workers are doing 90,000 jobs
There is a regional variation in jobs filled by EU workers:
13% in London / 2% in the north east
18% of EU workers (16,000 workers) arrived in the past 12 months

3. Domiciliary care in England
40,100 establishments* provide adult social care
8,300 of these establishments provide CQC regulated domiciliary care
42% of all jobs in adult social care are in domiciliary care
There are 645,000 jobs in domiciliary care
*local unit of employment

4. Turnover in domiciliary care in England
The turnover rate in domiciliary care is 33% (27% in total workforce)
Almost a half of care workers in domiciliary care leave within their first year
There is an experienced ‘core’ of workers (55% of workers have been in the sector for at least 5 years)
Evidence that recruiting for values reduces turnover

5. Vacancy rates in domiciliary care in England
Across whole of the adult social care sector there are 84,000 vacancies at any one time
11% of jobs in domiciliary care and 5% of jobs in residential care are vacant at any one time
Average cost of recruitment £4k

6. Post-referendum challenges
For existing EU workers:
Uncertainty about freedom of movement and right to stay
Financial impact of brexit
Incidence of racism
For employers:
Retaining existing workforce
Managing early exits and cost of recruitment
Future attractiveness of the UK as a place to live and work

7. Opportunities to strengthen good practice
Heightened focus on workforce and capacity planning as employers analyse dependence on migrant labour
Reinforce messages that social care is a sector with vacancies for the right people with the right values and behaviours
Employers target, recruit and train individuals who are new to the sector and changing careers - focus on recruiting for values
The sector Recruitment and Retention Strategy - key employers and stakeholders come together to share solutions and innovative practice

8. Skills for Care supporting employers’ recruitment and retention strategies
Recruitment and retention conference: Thursday 9 March, 2017
Values based recruitment seminars
Finding and keeping workers website
Recruitment and retention toolkit and resources
i-care ambassadors
National Graduate Management Training Scheme
Sector route-way: pre-employment support