Caseload breakdown
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Breakdown and distribution of how many cases were held by social workers on 30 September 2021.
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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
- Cumulative FTE
- Cumulative FTE Proportion
- Total FTE
- Filters
- Cases Held
- Time period
- 2021
Data set preview
geographic_level | time_period | time_identifier | country_code | country_name | rounded_cases | total_fte | cumulative_fte | cumulative_proportion |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
National | 2021 | Reporting year | E92000001 | England | 1 | 648.5 | 648.5 | 3.17 |
National | 2021 | Reporting year | E92000001 | England | 2 | 486.24 | 1134.74 | 5.55 |
National | 2021 | Reporting year | E92000001 | England | 3 | 383.03 | 1517.77 | 7.42 |
National | 2021 | Reporting year | E92000001 | England | 4 | 341.24 | 1859.01 | 9.09 |
National | 2021 | Reporting year | E92000001 | England | 5 | 404.29 | 2263.3 | 11.06 |
Variables in this data set
Variable name | Variable description |
---|---|
cumulative_fte | Cumulative FTE |
cumulative_proportion | Cumulative FTE Proportion |
rounded_cases | Cases Held |
total_fte | Total FTE |
Footnotes
- 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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