Guidance

Children’s social work workforce census: technical specification

Specification on the scope and business rationale of the children’s social work workforce census 20212022 to 2022.2023.

From:
Department for Education
Published
9 July 2021
Last updated
3018 AugustJuly 20222023 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Children's social work workforce census 20212022 to 2022:2023: business and technical specification

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Children's social work workforce census validation rules

ODS, 9.879.78 KB

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Children's social work workforce census validation rules

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 30.717.2 KB

Details

These documents give technical information about submitting data for the 20212022 to 20222023 children’s social work workforce census. They describe the data items for collection in the census.

These documents are for software suppliers and users of local authority management information systems.

You should also read the common basic data set (CBDS). This defines common data items used in management software and what we use in our data collections.

More guidance on submitting data for the children’s social work workforce census is available.

Published 9 July 2021
Last updated 3018 AugustJuly 20222023 + show all updates

  1. Removed 2021 to 2022 documents and replaced with 'Children's social work workforce census 2022 to 2023: business and technical specification' and 'Children's social work workforce census validation rules' for 2023 in ODS and Excel formats.

  2. Removed 2020 to 2021 documents and replaced with 'Children's social work workforce census 2021 to 2022: business and technical specification' and 'Children's social work workforce census validation rules' for 2022 in ODS and Excel formats.

  3. Added 'Children's social work workforce census validation rules' for 2020 to 2021.

  4. First published.