Children’s social work workforce census: reports specifications
Specifications of children’s social work workforce reports that local authorities can run in COLLECT.
- From:
- Department for Education
- Published
- 17 October 2017
- Last updated
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Applies to England
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Children's social work workforce census 20232024 to 2024:2025: COLLECT report specifications
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Details
This document describes the reports available to local authorities completing a children’s social work workforce return in COLLECT, our centralised data collection and management system.
It specifies:
- a detailed description of each report
- what data is used to calculate each report
- what information each report displays
Updates to this page
Published 17 October 2017
Last updated 291 JulySeptember 2024
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2025-09-01 15:09
Updated COLLECT report specifications for 2024 to 2025.
2024-07-29 12:11
Replaced ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2022 to 2023: COLLECT report specifications’ with an updated version. The updates are listed in the version history of the document.
2024-03-22 11:44
Updated report specifications for 2023 to 2024.
2023-10-30 12:33
Updated ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2022 to 2023: COLLECT report specifications’: amended logic for quality check 3 within the continuity report.
2023-07-18 17:05
Updated reports specifications for 2022 to 2023.
2022-08-26 16:44
The attachment ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2021 to 2022: COLLECT report specifications’ has replaced the 2020 to 2021 version of the same document.
Details
This document describes the reports available to local authorities completing a children’s social work workforce return in COLLECT, our centralised data collection and management system.
It specifies:
- a detailed description of each report
- what data is used to calculate each report
- what information each report displays
Updates to this page
Sign up for emails or print this page
Update history
2025-09-01 15:09
Updated COLLECT report specifications for 2024 to 2025.
2024-07-29 12:11
Replaced ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2022 to 2023: COLLECT report specifications’ with an updated version. The updates are listed in the version history of the document.
2024-03-22 11:44
Updated report specifications for 2023 to 2024.
2023-10-30 12:33
Updated ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2022 to 2023: COLLECT report specifications’: amended logic for quality check 3 within the continuity report.
2023-07-18 17:05
Updated reports specifications for 2022 to 2023.
2022-08-26 16:44
The attachment ‘Children’s social work workforce census 2021 to 2022: COLLECT report specifications’ has replaced the 2020 to 2021 version of the same document.