In 2023, we worked with Basis to review our options for supporting digital innovation in social care.
We found out that there are gaps in the skills the workforce need to support digital innovation in the sector.
One of the themes of our health and social care workforce strategy is building a digitally ready workforce that can deliver better outcomes for people and increase public confidence in the social care sector.
We know that to do this we need to help the social care sector develop the digital skills and confidence to make the most of the digital innovations that are available.
One of the opportunities we identified together was to promote inclusion and close the ‘digital divide’ by working with partners to produce a baseline assessment of digital maturity and literacy in social care.
A ‘baseline assessment’ will tell us what things are like now and give us a better idea of where to target support.