Social Workers: Vacancies

(asked on 7th March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children's social worker vacancies remained unfilled in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 15th March 2016

Information on the number of children’s social work vacancies in English local authorities is collected annually.

The most recent data, from 30 September 2015, was published by the Department for Education on 25 February 2016 and can be found on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childrens-social-work-workforce-2015

More data is also found on GOV.UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childrens-social-work-workforce-2013-to-2014

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