Data set from Children's social work workforce: attrition, caseload, and agency workforce

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Published 23 May 2022

Last updated 23 May 2022

Grouped data on the number of cases held by social workers.

Data set details

Theme: Children's social care
Publication: Children's social work workforce: attrition, caseload, and agency workforce
Release: Reporting year 2021
Release type
Geographic levels: National
Indicators: Proportion of all Case Holders
Total FTE
Filters: Number of Cases Held (Group)
Time period: 2021

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
geographic_level	time_period	time_identifier	country_code	country_name	cases_held_per_fte	total_fte	proportion
National	2021	Reporting year	E92000001	England	1 - <5 Cases per FTE	1876.7	9.17
National	2021	Reporting year	E92000001	England	5 - <10 Cases per FTE	2284.9	11.17
National	2021	Reporting year	E92000001	England	10 - <15 Cases per FTE	3923.42	19.18
National	2021	Reporting year	E92000001	England	15 - <20 Cases per FTE	5774.25	28.22
National	2021	Reporting year	E92000001	England	20 - <25 Cases per FTE	4094.71	20.02

Table showing all 3 variables
Variable name	Variable description
cases_held_per_fte	Number of Cases Held (Group)
proportion	Proportion of all Case Holders
total_fte	Total FTE

Components may not sum to totals due to rounding.
Social workers who do not hold cases (0 cases per FTE) are excluded – 17,930 FTE social workers.
Social workers who held cases, but had 0 FTE recorded are excluded – 26 social worker with 0 FTE were holding 309 cases.
Social workers holding more than 50 cases per FTE are excluded – 91.0 FTE social workers were holding 4,878 cases.

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