Data set from Children's social work workforce

Starters and leavers characteristics

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Published 25 February 2021

Last updated 25 February 2021

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.

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Data set details

• Theme: Children's social care
• Publication: Children's social work workforce
• Release: Reporting year 2020
• 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

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

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
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						FTE	Total	Total	5202.4	z	4294.2	z
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				FTE	Total	Total	333.7	z	248.7	z
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				FTE	Total	Total	714	z	607.6	z
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and the Humber				FTE	Total	Total	557.6	z	471.4	z
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				FTE	Total	Total	357.5	z	283.9	z

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

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 workers 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

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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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