How does the government and others use our data?
There are many ways that your data helps the government to understand social care and drive change for the sector. It’s used in:
Recent examples include our data being influential in care workers being allowed to access Health and Social Care visas and our data being submitted as evidence in the Covid Inquiry.
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What workplace data will I need to add?
You’ll need to add: the workplace name and address the number of staff the employer type the main service provided any other care services provided the service capacity your service users the number of current staff vacancies the number of new ...
Who can see our data?
Your ASC-WDS data can only be seen by: users that have been added to your account by your organisation a few Skills for Care business support staff, responsible for helping workplaces and maintaining ASC-WDS a few of Skills for Care's third party IT ...
Why is it important to keep our data up-to-date and accurate?
Your anonymised data is used across government and the sector. Having up-to-date data allows Skills for Care to provide insight on workforce issues affecting the sector, like staff vacancy levels. Your data helps answer questions in parliament and to ...
Why should we share our data with CQC and local authorities?
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) use the data as part of their overall suite of intelligence about adult social care providers and the wider sector. Local authorities would like access to your data to help them monitor where they've made ASC-WDS a ...
What's shared with the CQC?
With your permission, everything is shared with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), except: record ID pay sickness, absence date of birth National Insurance number ethnicity nationality country of birth year of arrival in the UK hours worked in the ...