§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate the Government has made of the numbers of social care staff working(a) in residential and nursing homes for the elderly, in both the public and private sectors, (b) in residential homes for children, (c) as paid care assistants in the community and (d) as paid domestic child care. [26706]
§ Mr. BoatengIn September 1996, the latest date for which the information is available, the numbers of full and part time social care staff directly employed by local authorities were:
- (a) residential care homes for the elderly: 59,750
- (b) residential homes for children: 16,520
Information is not held centrally on items (c) and (d). The number of social services staff in England providing home care/home help services to people in their own homes was (at the same date) 75,910.
Information on employment in the private and voluntary sectors is not held centrally. However, the report of the "Independent Sector Workforce Survey 1966" conducted by the Local Government Management Board showed that the numbers of nursing and care staff in private and voluntary residential and nursing establishments for the elderly and elder infirm in England were:
- residential/dual registered homes: 156,000
- nursing homes: 119,300.