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
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1817NovemberSeptember20242025 — See all updates
Applies to England
Documents
Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2025: guide
PDF, 499494 KB, 3536 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.
Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2025: guide
PDF, 499494 KB, 3536 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.
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.
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Update history
2025-09-17 09:39
We have updated section 3 of the guide, on social worker data items. The updates add details on base salary and the Frontline data item. We have described them fully in the version history.
2024-11-18 09:41
‘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).
2024-06-25 16:33
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’.
2024-04-30 13:44
Added ‘Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2025: guide’.
2024-03-22 11:44
Updated for 2024.
2023-07-18 16:58
Updated guide for 2023.
2022-08-26 16:41
First published.