NMDS-SC Online: National Minimum Data Set for Social Care
This summer Skills for Care is launching NMDS-SC dashboards. NMDS-SC users’ information will be presented in a new and easy to understand format with tailored interpretation, simple guidance, flexible benchmarks and links to useful documents.
A new report has been developed by Skills for Care in consultation with employers.
Data source for children’s workforce data for 2011/12 - extension of deadline to 30th November.
The Department of Health, NHS Information Centre for health and social care and Skills for Care are announcing that the National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) is to be introduced as the adult workforce data return from local authorities.
The Department for Education (DfE) are announcing that the SSDS001 collection for the children’s workforce in local authorities will no longer be required. Following Professor Munro's final report on child protection, the Government has announced it will respond by the summer informed by an Implementation Working group. Consideration is being given to the overall burden on local authorities in collecting and reporting data and how locally standardised data might work.
Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, all adult social care providers who provide regulated activities are required to be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Once a provider is registered, CQC will monitor whether they continue to meet the essential standards of safety and quality and will use a range of information to inform this process.
Issue 14 of NMDS-SC Briefings reports on the levels of migrant workers in the adult social care workforce.
Skills for Care’s National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) has been updated so that England’s adult social care employers can now record new qualifications their workers are taking as part of the Qualifications and Credit framework (QCF).
The latest NMDS-SC Briefing looks at similarities and variations across each of the nine regions of England, including comparisons of NMDS-SC coverage, workforce estimates, demographics and pay information.
Skills for Care and the NHS Information Centre (NHS IC) are seeking your views on whether the annual return SSDS001 data collection should cease in favour of supporting the NMDS-SC as the source of data on staff directly employed by social services departments in England.