Data set from Children's social work workforce

Workforce role by ethnicity

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Published 23 February 2023

Last updated 23 February 2023

Children and family social workers by role and ethnicity.

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Data set details

• Theme: Children's social care
• Publication: Children's social work workforce
• Release: Reporting year 2022
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of children and family social workers in post at 30 September with known ethnicity (Headcount)
  • Number of children and family social workers whose ethnicity was Asian (Headcount)
  • Number of children and family social workers whose ethnicity was Black (Headcount)
• Filters:
  • Organisation role
• Time period: 2019 to 2022

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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	OrgRole	known_headcount	white	mixed	asian	black	other	white_%	mixed_%	asian_%	black_%	other_%
2022	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						All children and family social workers	27373	20833	1050	1614	3632	244	76.1	3.8	5.9	13.3	0.9
2022	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				All children and family social workers	1621	1569	14	15	22	1	96.8	0.9	0.9	1.4	0.1
2022	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				All children and family social workers	3642	3228	103	115	177	19	88.6	2.8	3.2	4.9	0.5
2022	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				All children and family social workers	3199	2665	118	253	156	7	83.3	3.7	7.9	4.9	0.2
2022	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				All children and family social workers	2065	1666	88	137	161	13	80.7	4.3	6.6	7.8	0.6

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 12 variables

Variable name	Variable description
asian	Number of children and family social workers whose ethnicity was Asian (Headcount)
asian_%	Percentage of children and family social workers whose ethnicity was Asian (Headcount)
black	Number of children and family social workers whose ethnicity was Black (Headcount)
black_%	Percentage of children and family social workers whose ethnicity was Black (Headcount)
known_headcount	Number of children and family social workers in post at 30 September with known ethnicity (Headcount)

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Footnotes

1. 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).
2. White comprises white British, white Irish, or any other white background.
3. Mixed comprises white and black Caribbean, white and black African, white and Asian, or any other mixed background.
4. 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.
5. Black or Black British comprises black Caribbean, black African or any other black background.

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