Children services social workers
Case reference FOI2022/00319
Published 14 April 2022
Request
1a) For each of the years listed, please specify how many employed (i.e., non-agency) children's social workers left employment from the Children's Services department: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)?
1b) For each of the years listed, please specify how many children's social workers gained employment (ie non-agency workers) in the Children's Services department: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)?
2a) For each of the years listed, please specify how many agency children's social workers stopped working in the Children's Services department: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)?
2b) For each of the years listed, please specify how many agency children's social workers started working in the Children's Services department: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)?
For each of the questions above, please provide the exact number and that number as a percentage (%) of the total number of social workers employed in the Children's Services department at that time.
Response
1a) For each of the years listed, please specify how many employed (i.e., non-agency) children's social workers left employment from the Children's Services department: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)?
2017 - 12 permanent
2018 - 11 permanent
2019 - 5 permanent
2020 - 19 permanent, 1 fixed term contract
2021 - 15 permanent, 1 fixed term contract
2022 (to 1 March) - 6 permanent
1b) For each of the years listed, please specify how many children's social workers gained employment (i.e. non-agency workers) in the Children's Services department: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)?
2017 - 9 permanent, 1 fixed term contract
2018 - 7 permanent, 1 fixed term contract
2019 - 13 permanent, 1 fixed term contract
2020 - 29 permanent, 2 fixed term contract
2021 - 4 permanent
2022 (to 1 March) - 0
2a) For each of the years listed, please specify how many agency children's social workers stopped working in the Children's Services department: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)?
2017 - 16
2018 - 14
2019 - 30
2020 - 29
2021 - 26
2022 (to 1 March) - 6
2b) For each of the years listed, please specify how many agency children's social workers started working in the Children's Services department: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)?
2017 - 23
2018 - 26
2019 - 23
2020 - 45
2021 - 29
2022 (to 1 March) - 16
For each of the questions above, please provide the exact number and that number as a percentage (%) of the total number of social workers employed in the Children's Services department at that time.
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 (to 1 March) | |
| 1a | 16.22% | 14.86% | 6.33% | 27.40% | 18.60% | 7.59% |
| 1b | 13.51% | 10.81% | 17.72% | 42.47% | 16.28% | 0.00% |
| 2a | 21.62% | 18.92% | 37.97% | 39.73% | 30.23% | 7.59% |
| 2b | 31.08% | 35.14% | 29.11% | 61.64% | 33.72% | 20.25% |
Documents
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