years_in_la

full_attrition_fte

la_workforce_fte

leaver_fte

moved_into_agency_fte

total_attrition_fte30

total_attrition_relative_to_la_workforce

Reporting year 2021

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

full_attrition_rate

la_workforce_proportion

leaver_proportion

moved_into_agency_rate

proportion_of_total_attrition

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

Children in need and child protection

Children looked after

Children's social work workforce

Outcomes for children in social care

Secure children's homes

Serious incident notifications

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

COVID-19

Attendance

CO2 monitors

Confirmed cases reported by Higher Education providers

Devices

Testing

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

Destination of pupils and students

Destinations of key stage 4 and 16-18 pupils

NEET and participation

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Childcare and early years

Early years foundation stage profile

Early years surveys

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

Local authority and school finance

Student loan forecasts

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

Further education

Further education and skills

Further education outcomes

Further education workforce

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Education exports

Foundation years

Higher education graduate employment and earnings

Higher level learners in England

Participation measures in higher education

Widening participation in higher education

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

Pupils and schools

Academy transfers

Admission appeals

Elective home education and children missing education

Exclusions

Parental responsibility measures

Pupil absence

Pupil projections

School and pupil numbers

School applications

School capacity

Special educational needs (SEN)

Young offenders

School and college outcomes and performance

16 to 19 attainment

GCSEs (key stage 4)

Key stage 1

Key stage 2

Multi-academy trust performance measures

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

Initial teacher training (ITT)

School workforce

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

		LA Workforce FTE	Leaver FTE	Total Attrition FTE	Total Attrition Rate relative to LA Workforce	Moved into Agency FTE	Full Attrition FTE
2021	Less than 2 years	10,032.6	1,654.9	1,224.2	12.2%	357.8	866.3
	2 years or more but less than 5 years	9,441.0	1,812.4	1,275.4	13.5%	374.0	901.3
	5 years or more but less than 10 years	5,955.1	765.7	520.0	8.7%	82.0	438.0
	10 years or more but less than 20 years	5,134.9	510.5	383.6	7.5%	26.2	357.5
	20 years or more but less than 30 years	1,448.5	173.1	153.0	10.6%	3.0	150.0
	30 years or more	490.0	77.9	73.8	15.1%	2.0	71.8
	Total	32,502.0	4,994.5	3,630.0	11.2%	845.1	2,784.9
2020	Less than 2 years	10,506.3	1,483.7	1,053.2	10.0%	328.3	724.9
	2 years or more but less than 5 years	8,644.6	1,505.5	971.8	11.2%	275.0	696.8
	5 years or more but less than 10 years	5,561.4	622.4	417.4	7.5%	44.7	372.7
	10 years or more but less than 20 years	5,217.7	454.4	335.6	6.4%	34.8	300.8
	20 years or more but less than 30 years	1,420.1	154.1	129.0	9.1%	6.0	123.0
	30 years or more	504.1	74.0	66.9	13.3%	2.0	64.9
	Total	31,854.3	4,294.1	2,973.9	9.3%	690.8	2,283.1

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