Issue - meetings

          The Board received a report regarding the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard (SC-WRES) Improvement Programme. This programme supported local authorities to address evidence of inequality through the collection and analysis of their workforce data against 9 key metrics.  Organisations could then use their findings to develop an action plan to drive change and improvement. 

          The SC-WRES was a new annual data return made to Skills for Care and represented details of the Council’s Adult Social Care workforce.  A 12 month improvement programme had been developed and was attached at appendix 1 of the report. 

Skills for Care had published the latest findings from the SC-WRES and these were set out in the report.  The findings were taken from the 9 indicators. The data analysis was carried out at organisational level, which not only enabled local authorities to develop action plans but it was also used to produce a national report, giving an anonymous reflection of the social care sector.

In 2024, 76 local authorities participated in the SC-WRES improvement, with 73 providing data about their adult social care workforce and 43 (of the 73) also provided data about the children’s social care workforce for the report.

Halton submitted their action plan in June 2025 and signed up to the programme for three years.  The action plan would be made available to the public via social media and the Council’s website. 

RESOLVED:  That the report be noted.