Characteristics of social workers (including totals)
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Characteristics of children and family social workers in post at 30 September by FTE and headcount. Data is provided for overall totals, age, gender, ethnicity (headcount only), time in service and organisation role.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Children's social care
- Publication
- Children's social work workforce
- Release
- Reporting year 2021
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Indicators
- % of children and family social workers at 30 September
- Number of children and family social workers at 30 September
- Filters
- Characteristic type
- Count type
- Time period
- 2017 to 2021
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| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | FTE | Total | Total | 32502 | z | |||||
| 2021 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000001 | North East | FTE | Total | Total | 2101.4 | z | |||
| 2021 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000002 | North West | FTE | Total | Total | 4541.2 | z | |||
| 2021 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000003 | Yorkshire and The Humber | FTE | Total | Total | 3687.3 | z | |||
| 2021 | Reporting year | Regional | E92000001 | England | E12000004 | East Midlands | FTE | Total | Total | 2421.3 | z |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| characteristic_type | Characteristic type - Filter by characteristic type |
| count | Count type - Filter by count |
| number | Number of children and family social workers at 30 September |
| percentage | % of children and family social workers at 30 September |
Footnotes
- Age at 30 September of the reporting year.
- 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.
- Time in service for social workers in post at 30 September 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.
- From 2021 onwards children and family social workers whose ethnicity was recorded as Chinese have been included in the ‘Asian’ ethnic group, whereas previously they were included in the ‘other ethnic group'. As a result of this change, 2021 data for these two ethnic groups is not directly comparable with earlier years.
- 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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