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Statistics: children’s social work workforce

Annual statistics on child and family social workers, including child and family agency social workers, in England.

From:
Department for Education
Published
27 March 2013
Last updated
19 March 2026 — See all updates

Children’s social work workforce statistics are available on the statistics platform Explore Education Statistics.

Statutory census-based return

Voluntary survey-based return

Updates to this page

Published 27 March 2013
Last updated 19 March 2026 show all updates

  1. Added 'Children's social work workforce 2025' to 'Statutory census-based return'.

  2. Added 'Children's social work workforce 2024'.

  3. Added 'Children's social work workforce 2023'.

  4. Added 'Children's social work workforce 2022' under 'Statutory collection'.

  5. Added Children's social work workforce 2021 and updated introduction with link to Explore Education Statistics (EES).

  6. Added 'Children's social work workforce 2020' to the collection.

  7. Added 'Children's social work workforce 2019'.

  8. Added document 'Children's social work workforce 2018' under 'Statutory collection'.

  9. Clarified that data returned in the years 2011 and 2012 was based on a survey completed on a voluntary basis, and therefore is not comparable with figures produced by the statutory collection that began in 2013.

  10. Added 'Children's social work workforce 2017'.

  11. Added 'Children's social work workforce 2016' to the collection.

  12. Added 'Children's social work workforce 2015'.

  13. Added children’s social work workforce return form and guidance.

  14. Added 'Local authority children's social work workforce, England' to collection.

  15. First published.

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