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National social care data portal for Wales

We’re here to help with finding the data you need to make informed decisions in your work.

You can explore data about social care and related topics on the National social care data portal for Wales. 

What is the data portal? 

Developed by Social Care Wales, it’s a one-stop shop for data about social care in Wales.  

The aim is to bring together a range of data about those who work in social care and those who need social care, as well as about other factors that might impact demand for social care.  

For example, the portal contains data about people registered as social care workers in Wales, the number of looked after children, the amount of money councils spend on services, and the number of people diagnosed with dementia.  

Who is it for? 

The portal is for anyone who wants to explore data about social care in Wales.   

This might include local analysts who want to quickly find data about their area and share it with others, or service leads and commissioners who want access to a broad range of data sources in one place.   

It would be useful for people who want to understand how their local area compares to others, or those looking for a specific piece of information about the workforce or looked after children.   

It’s also for those who want to explore the data visually, through features such as line graphs or maps.  

What data does the portal hold? 

The data comes from a variety of sources. Much of the data comes from Welsh Government through Stats Wales. 

Other data comes from Social Care Wales itself, as well as from organisations such as Care Inspectorate Wales (information about registered services and the places they offer), the Office for National Statistics (information about the lives of people in Wales), and Public Health Wales.  

As well as data from these providers, the portal also includes transformed data to help you gain more insights into the figures. Transformed data could mean showing breakdowns as percentages or giving you rates to compare.  

For example, you might want to know how many assessments of adults who potentially need care lead to care and support plans, and how much that varies between different local authorities. You may want to know the number of care home places per 10,000 people living in an area. Or how much councils spend on services per head of population.  

What can you do on the portal?

You can interact with the data in different ways, like seeing the data as a table or exploring visualisations. We also publish data summaries that give insights about the data topics the portal holds, as well as data projections for planning.  

You can also:  

  • search for data or browse by category
  • filter data by local authority or health board
  • see the data for different date ranges
  • share data with others
  • download the data as a spreadsheet.

Data summaries

Our data summaries help you make informed decisions based on real-life data.   

These summaries bring together data from a range of sources on a particular topic.  

Our data summaries include:  

Tell us what you think 

Do you have any thoughts, feedback, or questions about the data portal? Or would you like to suggest topics that could be covered by the data summaries? Email data@socialcare.wales  

Key contacts

Owen Davies

Owen Davies

Data and Intelligence Manager

data@socialcare.wales
I lead on developing and implementing the strategic approach to social care data in Wales. This means helping people and organisations who work in social care in Wales to be better at collecting, using and sharing their data. I also manage a team of data professionals in Social Care Wales to achieve our strategy and to manage Social Care Wales’s own data. I’ve spent most of my career working in data and digital roles in social care. I worked for a local authority for over 20 years, ending up as the Performance and Information Manager for children’s services. Before joining Social Care Wales, I worked as a senior policy lead in Welsh Government, working in the team that developed the Performance and Improvement Framework for social care in Wales. I'm passionate about usability and accessibility of data and digital and am undertaking a research degree in Human Computer Interaction at Swansea University.
Claire Miller

Claire Miller

Data Portal Lead

data@socialcare.wales
I’m responsible for the maintenance and development of the National Social Care Data Portal My job is to gather data from different sources like Welsh Government or Social Care Wales for the portal and use that data to create meaningful and useful content. I worked as a data journalist across national and regional newspapers in the UK before joining Social Care Wales in November 2022.   After starting as a local weekly reporter in Kent I joined WalesOnline in 2010.  While working at WalesOnline I launched the Datastore – a repository for the data and graphics relating to stories published in Welsh newspapers.   Later, I became the editor of the Reach Data Unit after being instrumental in setting up and developing it. The unit produces in-depth data journalism projects and interactive content that’s published across Reach’s national and regional titles.