Official Statistics

Children's social work workforce 2013

Staff employed by children's social services in England as at 30 September 2013.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 6 March 2014
• Last updated: 6 March 2014
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  1. 6 March 2014

     Medway Council’s data has been changed to amend a processing error. This has resulted in a minor amendment to the national figures, including a 0.26% change in the headline figure for the number of children’s social work workers.

  2. 6 March 2014

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Social work workforce: SFR08/2014

1.99 MB

Supplementary tables: SFR08/2014

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 637 KB

Underlying data: SFR08/2014

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 18.5 KB

Underlying data metadata: SFR08/2014

Plain Text, 6.48 KB

Pre-release access list: SFR08/2014

Plain Text, 927 Bytes

Details

This experimental statistical first release (SFR) is the first publication to use data from the statutory children’s social work workforce data collection.

It covers the:

• number of social workers

• vacancy rate of social workers

• turnover rate of social workers

• sickness absence of social workers

• number of agency workers

Data was collected from all local authorities. We plan to publish future SFRs annually.