Research, data and innovation

We want to create a culture where evidence is central to delivery and used to inform decisions at all levels of social care, and where people feel inspired and supported to try new things.

Find out about our evidence offer, which explains how we're supporting the workforce to create evidence enriched practice, and the research we carried out to help develop this.

Have Your Say is our annual survey of the social care workforce.

We've developed a digital potential tool to help organisations and individuals learn more about their digital readiness and confidence.

Information about our approach to social care data and where to find out about our current data projects.

A range of data from a variety of sources relating to social care services.

Data and information on the social care workforce in Wales.

The Workforce Race equality standard is a tool to help monitor the experience of people from ethnic minorities who work in health and social care in Wales.

We’ve partnered with Administrative Data Research (ADR) Wales to lead on the social care theme in the ADR Wales programme of work.

Information on how to access NHS Wales e-Library resources.