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SUMMARY:LIV.INNO Hackathon - Skills for Care
DTSTART:20261118T090000Z
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UID:indico-event-2553@indico.ph.liv.ac.uk
CONTACT:naomi.smith@liverpool.ac.uk
DESCRIPTION:\nSocial care provides practical support and personal care to 
 people who need help to live independently and with dignity. In England\, 
 it is a large and complex sector spanning care homes\, at-home care and ot
 her services\, with around 1.7 million posts across the sector. Despite re
 cent improvements\, recruitment and retention remain significant challenge
 s\, making reliable workforce intelligence crucial for planning and policy
 making.\nIn this hackathon\, Skills for Care\, the organisation responsibl
 e for workforce intelligence and development across adult social care in E
 ngland\, will challenge LIV.INNO PhD students to tackle the research quest
 ion:\nHow can we accurately measure and report social care vacancies to go
 vernment\, both reliably and in a timely way?\nThe underlying data comes f
 rom organisations across the sector reporting their staffing levels and va
 cancies through the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS)\, one o
 f the leading sources of workforce intelligence in England. The challenge 
 is to turn imperfect\, self-reported and constantly changing data into a r
 eliable picture of the workforce\nTeams will have access to Skills for Car
 e data and\, rather than being given a predefined methodology\, will be as
 ked to formulate and investigate their own approaches. Whether through sta
 tistical modelling\, machine learning\, uncertainty estimation\, anomaly d
 etection\, data quality methods or something entirely unexpected\, the aim
  is to develop novel ways of extracting trustworthy intelligence from comp
 lex real-world data.\nThis is an opportunity to work on a genuine research
  problem where methodological innovation could have practical and lasting 
 consequences for how one of the UK's most important public services is und
 erstood and planned.\n\nhttps://indico.ph.liv.ac.uk/event/2553/
LOCATION:Liverpool Physics
URL:https://indico.ph.liv.ac.uk/event/2553/
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