What's new

What's new

March 2025

We removed 2 questions.

How much money have you spent on advertising for staff in the last 4 weeks?
 How many people have you interviewed for care worker roles in the last 4 weeks?

November 2024

We made it possible to upload training and qualification certificates.
 Certificates must be PDF files that are no larger than 5MB in size.

July 2024

We added a question about international recruitment.

DHSC use the anonymised data we collect to help them identify which roles workers with Health and Care worker visas have. The data is also used to look at employment trends and inform recruitment policies.

May 2024

We added 7 new job roles.

Data analyst
 Data governance manager
 IT and digital support
 IT manager
 IT service desk manager
 Software developer
 Support worker

May 2024

We removed 2 job roles.

Technician
 Care navigator

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