News

Safeguarding week: new Group B training resource available

We’ve published a new training pack for people in Group B of the National safeguarding training, learning and development standards.

Data portal updates make social care data easier to access and understand

The data portal is a one-stop shop for social care data in Wales.

Well-being Week 2025: a space for you

We’re running a week of online well-being events in January to support people who work in social care, and early years and childcare in Wales.

Your new look SCWonline is here

We’ve listened to your feedback and we’re introducing a new SCWonline layout.

Have Your Say 2024: Social care workforce feel more valued than last year, but well-being and pay still a concern

We carried out this survey between January and February 2024. In total, 5,024 social care workers responded, from a wide range of roles. This was an increase of almost 2,000 on the number who responded last year.

Have Your Say 2024: Survey finds more well-being support needed for social care workforce in Wales

To mark World Mental Health Day, we’re raising awareness of free resources, information and advice to help support the well-being of the social care workforce in Wales.

Your new-look SCWonline is coming!

We’ve listened to your feedback and soon we’ll be introducing a new SCWonline layout.

A message to the people registered with us from our new Chief Executive

Entries and nominations open for 2025 Accolades

Have you done something unique or innovative that’s made a real difference to the lives of the people you support or your workforce?

Welcome to my new column – and a celebration of our workforce

In her first column for the Western Mail, our new Chief Executive Sarah McCarty sets out how she plans to use her column to share the importance of the social care and early years and childcare sectors.

Leading in the right way: introducing our new compassionate leadership pages

We have new webpages to support people who work in social care, early years and childcare to champion compassionate leadership at work.

Help us get a snapshot of the social care workforce in Wales

We analyse the data and present it in a report we publish every year, which gives an overview of the workforce as a whole and breaks the findings down for different settings.