Starters and Leavers characteristics
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Data set details
- Theme
- Children's social care
- Publication
- Children's social work workforce
- Release
- Reporting year 2019
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Indicators
- % of children and family social worker leaving during year
- % of children and family social workers starting during year
- Number of children and family social workers leaving during year
- Filters
- Characteristic type
- Count type
- Time period
- 2017 to 2019
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | old_la_code | new_la_code | la_name | count | characteristic | characteristic_type | number_of_starters | starters_percent | number_of_leavers | leavers_percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | FTE | Total | Total | 5943.4 | . | 4652.6 | . | |||||
| 2019 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000001 | North East | FTE | Total | Total | 406.4 | . | 290.2 | . | |||
| 2019 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000002 | North West | FTE | Total | Total | 779.8 | . | 583.3 | . | |||
| 2019 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000003 | Yorkshire and the Humber | FTE | Total | Total | 580.4 | . | 486.6 | . | |||
| 2019 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000004 | East Midlands | FTE | Total | Total | 478.6 | . | 350.8 | . |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| characteristic_type | Characteristic type - Filter by characteristic type |
| count | Count type - Filter by count |
| leavers_percent | % of children and family social worker leaving during year |
| number_of_leavers | Number of children and family social workers leaving during year |
| number_of_starters | Number of children and family social workers starting during year |
Footnotes
- Headcount is a count of all distinct children and family social workers: where a social worker holds more than one post only one record is counted.
- Full-time Equivalent (FTE) figures are calculated by aggregating the total number of hours that social workers are contracted to work and dividing by the standard hours for their grade. FTE figures exclude social workers for whom FTE information was missing or not known.
- Starters are social workers who joined a vacant child and family social worker post at a local authority in the year ending 30 September. This includes social workers who have previously worked in the same local authority, but in a non-child and family role.
- Information where the gender of a social worker was not known is not shown separately in the table; a small amount of gender information was not known in the year ending September 2018 and September 2019, therefore figures for females and males do not sum to totals.
- Leavers are social workers who left a child and family social worker post at a local authority in the year ending 30 September. This includes social workers who are staying at a local authority, but moving to a non-child and family role, for example moving to adult social care.
- Social workers included in this table are those registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council and either work in a local authority in a children’s services department or, if working in an authority where the services are joined up, work exclusively on children and families work.
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