Data set from Children's social work workforce

Starters and leavers characteristics

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Age, gender and time in service (leavers only) of children and family social workers starters and leavers in the year ending 30 September. Characteristics are provided on a full-time equivalent (FTE) and headcount basis.


Data set details

Theme
Children's social care
Publication
Children's social work workforce
Release type
Geographic levels
Local authority, National, Regional
Indicators
  • % of children and family social workers 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 2020

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_periodtime_identifiergeographic_levelcountry_codecountry_nameregion_coderegion_nameold_la_codenew_la_codela_namecountcharacteristiccharacteristic_typenumber_of_startersstarters_percentnumber_of_leaversleavers_percent
2020Reporting yearNationalE92000001EnglandFTETotalTotal5202.4z4294.2z
2020Reporting yearRegionalE92000001EnglandE12000001North EastFTETotalTotal333.7z248.7z
2020Reporting yearRegionalE92000001EnglandE12000002North WestFTETotalTotal714z607.6z
2020Reporting yearRegionalE92000001EnglandE12000003Yorkshire and the HumberFTETotalTotal557.6z471.4z
2020Reporting yearRegionalE92000001EnglandE12000004East MidlandsFTETotalTotal357.5z283.9z

Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables
Variable nameVariable description
characteristic_typeCharacteristic type - Filter by characteristic type
countCount type - Filter by count
leavers_percent% of children and family social workers leaving during year
number_of_leaversNumber of children and family social workers leaving during year
number_of_startersNumber of children and family social workers starting during year

Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Headcount is a count of all individual children and family social workers, regardless of their working pattern: where a social worker holds more than one post within a local authority, only one post is counted (refer to the methodology section for more information).

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