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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.

Working together for a healthier Wales: our workforce strategy for health and social care

Social Care Wales alongside Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) have published the priorities for the second phase of ‘A Healthier Wales: Our Workforce Strategy for Health and Social Care’.

Social Care Wales statement on the past week's events

A statement about the past week's violence and racist behaviour.