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Characteristics of children and family social workers in post (FTE and headcount).
Data for overall totals, age, gender, ethnicity (headcount only), time in service at local authority and organisation role.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Children's social care
- Publication
- Children's social work workforce
- Release
- Reporting year 2022
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Indicators
- Number of children and family social workers in post at 30 September
- Percentage of children and family social workers in post at 30 September
- Filters
- Characteristic type
- Count type
- Time period
- 2017 to 2022
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 | percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | FTE | Total | Total | 31634.1 | z | |||||
| 2022 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000001 | North East | FTE | Total | Total | 2054.5 | z | |||
| 2022 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000002 | North West | FTE | Total | Total | 4240.6 | z | |||
| 2022 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000003 | Yorkshire and The Humber | FTE | Total | Total | 3552.5 | z | |||
| 2022 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000004 | East Midlands | FTE | Total | Total | 2323.6 | z |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| characteristic_type | Characteristic type |
| count | Count type |
| number | Number of children and family social workers in post at 30 September |
| percentage | Percentage of children and family social workers in post at 30 September |
Footnotes
- 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.
- 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).
- For children and family social workers in post at 30 September, time in service is calculated as the time in years from when the worker started in a children and family social worker role at the local authority to 30 September of the reporting year.
- Age of the child and family social worker at 30 September of the reporting year.
- White comprises white British, white Irish, or any other white background.
- Mixed comprises white and black Caribbean, white and black African, white and Asian, or any other mixed background.
- Asian or Asian British comprises Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese or any other Asian background. Refer to the 'Definitions' section of the accompanying methodology for more information on the Asian ethnic group.
- Black or Black British comprises black Caribbean, black African or any other black background.
- Time in service is a measure of the total time in years that a social worker has been employed continuously in any children and family social worker role at their current local authority, rather than only the time they have spent in their current children and family social worker role.
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