Full time equivalent attrition broken down by the time the social worker had been in their local authority, for years ending 30 September 2020 and 30 September 2021

Attrition FTE by time in local authority

Attrition of children and family social workers for years ending 30 September 2020 and 2021, with counts of full time equivalents for each group, with comparisons to the LA workforce, leavers, and attrition groups.

Attrition of children and family social workers

Attrition rates by age group for years ending 30 September 2020 and 2021

Attrition rates by age group

Average caseload at each role type for year ending 30 September 2021, split into agency social workers, local authority social workers, and a total of both employment types.

Caseload by role type

Breakdowns of caseloads of FTE social workers, grouped by the number of cases held for year ending 30 September 2021

Caseloads grouped by number of cases

FTE local authority social workers, agency workers and agency rates for year ending 30 September 2021

FTE local authority social workers, agency workers and agency rates

Proportions of attrition split by the length of time social workers had been employed at their local authority, for years ending 30 September 2020 and 30 September 2021

Percentage of attrition by time in local authority

Percentage of FTE local authority social workers and agency workers by organisation role, for year ending 30 September 2021.

Percentage of FTE local authority social workers and agency workers by organisation role

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Additional attrition estimates are calculated with sub-groups of the main data, estimating attrition with leavers from the first six months of the collection period (October ‘20 and March ’21), and the leavers from October '20 only.

Additional attrition estimates

Agency rate data, at local authority and National level.

Agency rates

Data on the breakdown of attrition based on the age of the social worker on 30 September 2021.

Attrition by age

Data on the breakdown of attrition by time in local authority (LA) are presented.Time in local authority is a measure for how long a social worker has worked in their current local authority. Where time in LA is provided for leaver and attrition groups, this is how long the social worker had worked in their LA before leaving the local authority. time in local authority is not a measure of the duration an individual has been registered as a social worker.

Attrition by time in LA

Breakdowns of the various levels of attrition, with comparisons to the LA-employed social work workforce on 30 September 2021.

Attrition overall

Breakdown and distribution of how many cases were held by social workers on 30 September 2021.

Caseload breakdown

Breakdown of how many cases were held by social workers at each different organisation role type, provided for agency-employed social workers and LA-employed social workers.

Caseload by organisation role

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

Caseload groups

Data on the proportions and FTE of the organisation role types of agency-employed children's social workers.

Organisation role types

Breakdown of the number of days between social workers leaving one role and starting their next role, for Social Workers who left their role in the year ending 30 September 2021.

Time between roles - all movers

Breakdown of the number of days between social workers leaving one role and starting their next role, for social workers who left their role in October 2020.

Time between roles - October movers

Including children in need and child protection, children looked after and social work workforce statistics

Children's social care

Including Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

COVID-19

Including not in education, employment or training (NEET) statistics

Destination of pupils and students

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

Including advanced learner loan, benefit claimant and apprenticeship and traineeship statistics

Further education

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Labour market and skills

Including absence, application and offers, capacity, exclusion and special educational needs (SEN) statistics

Pupils and schools

School and college outcomes and performance

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

Including summarised expenditure, post-compulsory education, qualification and school statistics

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