Guidance
Agency child and family social workers: data return and price caps
Operational guidance for local authorities on the data collection and price caps rules on the use of agency child and family social workers.
Applies to England
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Guidance around the new quarterly statutory data collection on the use and pay of agency child and family social workers and the development and implementation of price caps.
Ahead of the first data return, local authorities will have to complete and submit a job mapping exercise to the Department for Education (DfE) to support the development of consistent and comparable price caps.
The guidance includes information on:
- the data being collected
- the supporting rationale
- the job mapping exercise
- data protection
- price caps
- high-level timelines
DfE will provide guidance about how data can be submitted later in 2024.
Published 13 May 2024