Agency child and family social workers: data return and price caps
Operational guidance for local authorities on the data collection and price caps rules on the use of agency child and family social workers.
Applies to England
Documents
Details
Guidance around the quarterly statutory data collection on the use and pay of agency child and family social workers and the development and implementation of price caps.
The guidance includes information on:
- the data being collected
- the supporting rationale
- submitting the data
- dashboards and data access
- job mapping
- data protection
- price caps
- high-level timelines
The agency rules statutory guidance, which came into effect on 31 October 2024, is available.
Support and resources
DfE funded Research in Practice to develop resources to support the implementation of the agency rules statutory guidance. Developed in collaboration with Essex County Council and King’s College London, and in consultation with local government and the recruitment sector, these resources are intended to complement the agency rules statutory guidance and this data and price caps operational guidance.
The resources are available on the support for social workers platform.
Updates to this page
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Updated 'Agency child and family social workers: data and price caps operational guidance'. Removed 'Agency child and family social workers: job mapping template' as submissions are closed.
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Updated 'Agency child and family social workers: data and price caps operational guidance'. Added 'Agency child and family social workers: assignments data template' and 'Agency child and family social workers: general data template'.
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Updated data and price caps operational guidance and added job mapping template.
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