The survey results from the second wave of the Adult Social Care Workforce Survey, undertaken between August and October 2025 in England have now been published.
The research involved an online survey with members of the ASC workforce in England between August and October 2025 to measure their wellbeing and care work- related quality of life (CWRQoL). It asked questions about overall wellbeing, Care work-related quality of life, Experiences of physical violence, harassment, abuse and bullying, Learning and Development, Intentions to leave, Delegated activities, and Employment terms and conditions.
It is important to note that wave 1 took place as the sector was recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore constitutes an unusual benchmark for wave 2 findings.
This survey found life satisfaction has increased, with half of the workforce (51%) now rating their life satisfaction as high or very high – a 10 percentage point increase from wave 1 (41%)
Intention to leave their current role has decreased since wave 1, with a quarter of the ASC workforce who are not self-employed (25%) agreeing that they will leave their organisation as soon as they can find another job, compared with a third at wave 1 (34%).
The documents in this publication set out the questions asked and findings in full, along with the detailed methodology and how the survey findings will be used.
Find all the documents at this link here.
About the Adult Social Care Workforce Survey
The Adult Social Care Workforce Survey was designed to collect information from people working in adult social care about different aspects of their employment, work-related quality of life and wellbeing.
Insights and evidence of this kind will be vital in supporting policy development to deliver the government’s ambitions to support the adult social care workforce. These include implementing and evaluating the first fair pay agreement (FPA) for adult social care, enhancing skills and building towards a national care service.
The survey will help the government and employers to:
- understand how best to recruit and retain staff
- build capacity
- improve working conditions
- develop future policy and guidance
The second wave of the survey was conducted by Ipsos in association with Skills for Care and the University of Kent and ran from August to October 2025. Over 3,000 responses were collected from a diverse range of workers.
See Adult social care (ASC) workforce and work-related quality of life for findings from the first wave, which took place in 2023.
