Councils invited to sign up to scheme to highlight racial inequalities in social care workforce

English councils have been invited to sign up to a scheme to highlight, and thereby tackle, racial inequalities in their social care workforces.
Skills for Care has opened registration for the 2024-25 social care-workforce race equality standard (SC-WRES), under which councils collect data on nine metrics comparing outcomes for black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and white colleagues.
The last round of the SC-WRES found that black, Asian and minority ethnic social care staff face disproportio