'Caseloads, absence, vacancies, turnover and agency workers' from 'Children's social work workforce'
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2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
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Number of agency workers at 30 September (FTE) | 5,343 | 5,356 | 5,754 | 5,806 | 5,977 |
Number of agency workers at 30 September covering vacancies (FTE) | 3,865 | 4,166 | 4,414 | 4,532 | 4,558 |
Number of children and family social workers at 30 September (FTE) | 28,496 | 29,475 | 30,720 | 31,854 | 32,502 |
Number of children and family social workers at 30 September (Headcount) | 30,663 | 31,722 | 32,917 | 33,966 | 34,679 |
Footnotes
- 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.
- 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).
Source: Children's social work workforce, Caseloads, absence, vacancies, turnover and agency workers
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