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'Characteristics of starters and leavers (including totals)' from 'Children's social work workforce'

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% of children and family social workers leaving during year for 'Characteristics of starters and leavers (including totals)' for 10 years or more but less than 20 years, 2 years or more but less than 5 years, 20 years or more but less than 30 years, 30 years or more, 5 years or more but less than 10 years and 2 other filters in England between 2017 and 2021
20172018201920202021
Less than 2 years33.0%35.3%34.8%34.6%33.1%
2 years or more but less than 5 years29.9%33.0%32.9%35.1%36.3%
5 years or more but less than 10 years17.0%14.8%14.8%14.5%15.3%
10 years or more but less than 20 years13.8%12.1%11.9%10.6%10.2%
20 years or more but less than 30 years4.3%3.3%3.9%3.6%3.5%
30 years or more2.0%1.6%1.7%1.7%1.6%

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. Time in service for leavers is calculated as the time in years from when the worker started in a children and family social worker role at the local authority to the date they left a children and family social worker role at the local authority.

Source: Children's social work workforce, Characteristics of starters and leavers (including totals)

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