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
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Guidance around the new quarterly statutory data collection on the use and pay of agency child and family social workers and the development and implementation of price caps.
Ahead of the first data return, local authorities will have to complete and submit a job mapping exercise to the Department for Education (DfE) to support the development of consistent and comparable price caps. Relevant timelines are detailed in the data and price caps operational guidance.
The guidance includes information on:
- the data being collected
- the supporting rationale
- the job mapping exercise
- data protection
- price caps
- high-level timelines
DfE will update the operational guidance with information on how data can be submitted later in 2024.
Updates to this page
Last updated 12 September 2024 + show all updates
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Updated data and price caps operational guidance and added job mapping template.
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First published.