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Children’s social work workforce census: reports specifications

Specifications of children’s social work workforce reports that local authorities can run in COLLECT.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Education
Published:
17 October 2017
Last updated:
22 September 2026
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  1. Updated COLLECT report specifications for 2025 to 2026.

  2. Updated COLLECT report specifications for 2024 to 2025.

  3. Replaced 'Children's social work workforce census 2022 to 2023: COLLECT report specifications' with an updated version. The updates are listed in the version history of the document.

  4. Updated report specifications for 2023 to 2024.

  5. Updated 'Children's social work workforce census 2022 to 2023: COLLECT report specifications': amended logic for quality check 3 within the continuity report.

  6. Updated 'Children’s social work workforce census 2022 to 2023 COLLECT report specifications' to add an under 20 age category to 'Data summary report', add logic to 'Continuity report' and add 'Continuity report staff details report' section.

  7. Updated reports specifications for 2022 to 2023.

  8. The attachment ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2021 to 2022: COLLECT report specifications’ has replaced the 2020 to 2021 version of the same document.

  9. Updated reports specifications for 2020 to 2021.

  10. Updated reports specifications for 2019 to 2020.

  11. Updated reports specifications for 2018 to 2019.

  12. First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Children's social work workforce census 2025 to 2026: COLLECT report specifications

PDF, 945 KB, 65 pages

Details

This document describes the reports available to local authorities completing a children’s social work workforce return in COLLECT, our centralised data collection and management system.

It specifies:

  • a detailed description of each report
  • what data is used to calculate each report
  • what information each report displays

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