Research, data and innovation

Research strategy for Wales

Find out about the social care research and development strategy for Wales 2018-23.

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.

Workforce reports

Data and information on the social care workforce in Wales.

Research on care

Search Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE) the UK’s largest online database of information on all aspects of social work and social care

Curated research

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

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.