Guidance

Children’s social work workforce: guide

Guide for local authorities submitting children’s social work workforce returns for 2024 and 2025.

From:
Department for Education
Published
26 August 2022
Last updated
18 November 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2024: guide

PDF, 541 KB, 34 pages

Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2025: guide

PDF, 499 KB, 35 pages

Details

This guide is for local authorities preparing a children’s social work workforce return.

It includes information on:

  • submission deadlines
  • data modules

Children’s social work workforce census: guide to submitting data explains how local authorities should collect and submit data.

Updates to this page

Published 26 August 2022
Last updated 18 November 2024 + show all updates

  1. 'Children's social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2024': updated link to service request form in section 1.5 (change also described in the version history).

  2. Updated 'Children's social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2024'. In section 3 we corrected an error and replaced 'FTE as at 30 September 2023' with 'FTE as at 30 September 2024'.

  3. Added 'Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2025: guide'.

  4. Updated for 2024.

  5. Updated guide for 2023.

  6. First published.

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