Official Statistics

Children's social work workforce 2015

Staff employed by children's social services in England as at 30 September 2015.

Applies to England

Documents

Main text: SFR07/2016

Main tables: SFR07/2016

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Underlying data: SFR07/2016

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Technical document: SFR07/2016

Pre-release access list: SFR07/2016

Details

This experimental statistical first release is the third 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
  • number of agency workers
  • turnover rate of social workers
  • sickness absence of social workers

We collected data from all local authorities.

Published 25 February 2016
Last updated 3 March 2016 + show all updates
  1. Updated pre-release access list to include post-holders not on the list that was published on 25 February.

  2. First published.