Data set from Children's social work workforce

Organisation role by ethnicity

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Published 24 February 2022

Last updated 24 February 2022

Children and family social worker role by ethnicity.

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Data set details

• Theme: Children's social care
• Publication: Children's social work workforce
• Release: Reporting year 2021
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of children and family social workers whose ethnicity was Asian (Headcount)
  • Number of children and family social workers whose ethnicity was Black (Headcount)
  • Number of children and family social workers whose ethnicity was Mixed (Headcount)
• Filters:
  • Organisation role
• Time period: 2019 to 2021

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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_ethnicity_headcount	white	mixed	asian	black	other	white_%	mixed_%	asian_%	black_%	other_%
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						All children and family social workers	27953	21417	1104	1603	3586	243	76.6	3.9	5.7	12.8	0.9
2021	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				All children and family social workers	1567	1517	18	10	21	1	96.8	1.1	0.6	1.3	0.1
2021	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				All children and family social workers	3980	3521	125	131	187	16	88.5	3.1	3.3	4.7	0.4
2021	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				All children and family social workers	3229	2710	109	258	142	10	83.9	3.4	8	4.4	0.3
2021	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				All children and family social workers	2165	1731	94	135	190	15	80	4.3	6.2	8.8	0.7

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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_ethnicity_headcount	Number of children and family social workers 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).

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