Social Workers
(asked on 23rd February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many serving social workers were in post in England as at 1 January 2017.
This question was answered on 28th February 2017
Skills for Care estimate that there are 18,700 social workers working in adult services in England. These figures do not include social workers operating on a self-employed basis.
Information on the number of social workers in child and family services is held by the Department for Education.