Research, data and innovation

Ymlaen: The research, innovation and improvement strategy for social care 2024 to 2029

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.

Getting evidence into practice

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 survey

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

Innovation coaching service

We’ve launched a free coaching service to support promising social care innovations across Wales.

Understand your digital potential

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

Strategic approach to data

We're leading on developing a more strategic approach to social care data in collaboration with Welsh Government and other partners.

National social care data portal for Wales

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

Social care data maturity

We recently published research about the data maturity of local authority social care teams in Wales.

Workforce reports

Data and information on the social care workforce in Wales.

Workforce Race Equality Standard

An introduction to the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES).

Linked data research

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

NHS Wales e-Library access for registered social workers and social care managers

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

Curated research

Research on social care. The research is chosen or ‘curated’ by people who have professional experience in the topic area.