Children’s social work workforce census: technical specification
Specification on the scope and business rationale of the children’s social work workforce census for 2024 to 2025.
- From:
- Department for Education
- Published
- 9 July 2021
- Last updated
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1421NovemberFebruary20242025 — See all updates
Applies to England
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Children's social work workforce census validation rules 20242025
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Details
These documents give technical information about submitting data for the 2024 to 2025 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.
Details
These documents give technical information about submitting data for the 2024 to 2025 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.
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Added 'Children's social work workforce census 2023 to 2024: business and technical specification' and 'Children's social work workforce census validation rules' for 2024.
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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.
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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.
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2025-11-25 12:51
Replaced ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2024 to 2025: business and technical specification’ with the 2025 to 2026 version.
2025-11-07 16:47
Updated the validation rules. The version history describes the changes.
2025-02-21 12:52
Updated the validation rules. The version history describes the changes.
2024-11-14 13:52
Replaced ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2023 to 2024: business and technical specification’ with the 2024 to 2025 version.
2024-07-31 11:31
Updated the validation rules. The version history describes the changes.
2024-03-22 11:44
Removed 2022 to 2023 documents and information.
2023-10-16 16:03
Added ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2023 to 2024: business and technical specification’ and ‘Children’s social work workforce census validation rules’ for 2024.
2023-09-11 13:57
Updated the validation rules. The version history describes the changes.
2023-07-18 16:51
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.
2022-08-30 12:09
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.