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    Children's social work workforce

  2. Step 2 Select a data set or featured table

    Data set
    Characteristics of social workers (including totals)

  3. Step 3 Choose locations

    National
    • England

  4. Step 4 Choose time period

    Time period
    2017 to 2021

  5. Step 5 Choose your filters

    Indicators
    • Number of children and family social workers at 30 September
    Characteristic type
    • Total
    Count type
    • FTE
    • Headcount

  6. Step 6 (current) Explore data

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    View latest data: Reporting year 2023
    Number of children and family social workers at 30 September for 'Characteristics of social workers (including totals)' for FTE and Headcount in England between 2017 and 2021
    20172018201920202021
    FTE28,49629,47530,72031,85432,502
    Headcount30,66331,72232,91733,96634,679

    Footnotes

    1. 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.
    2. 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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