1. In your authority’s children’s services department, what was the highest caseload of a frontline child protection social worker as of 1 April 2022? Please explain how the figures are calculated on occasions where there are multiple children in a family being supported. (ie Is there one case per child, or one case per family?) Please understand “frontline social workers” to be those that are registered with Social Work England.
25 – this figure has been calculated by looking at the number of cases allocated to case holding social workers, each case is one child.

2. In your authority’s children’s services department, what was the average caseload of a frontline child protection social worker as of 1 April 2022? Please explain how the figures are calculated on occasions where there are multiple children in a family being supported. (ie Is there one case per child, or one case per family?)
15 – this figure is the average number of cases held by case holding social workers, each case is one child

3. In each of the following financial years, how many referrals did your authority’s children’s services department receive – where a referral is defined as a request for services to be provided by children’s social care?
i. 2017/18
ii. 2018/19
iii. 2019/20
iv. 2020/21
v. 2021/22
This data is available publicly and is available here: Create your own tables, Table Tool – Explore education statistics – GOV.UK (explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk) We cannot provide the 2021/22 data as this data return is currently in process and the data hasn’t been validated yet.

4. What was the number of section 47 enquiries made by your authority’s children’s services in the following financial years?
i. 2017/18
ii. 2018/19
iii. 2019/20
iv. 2020/21
v. 2021/22
This data is available publicly and is available here: Create your own tables, Table Tool – Explore education statistics – GOV.UK (explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk) We cannot provide the 2021/22 data as this data return is currently in process and the data hasn’t been validated yet.

5.
a) How many children in total were on child protection plans within your authority’s children’s services in the following financial years?
i. 2017/18
ii. 2018/19
iii. 2019/20
iv. 2020/21
v. 2021/22
This data is available publicly and is available here: Create your own tables, Table Tool – Explore education statistics – GOV.UK (explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk) We cannot provide the 2021/22 data as this data return is currently in process and the data hasn’t been validated yet.
b) How many children were newly added to child protection plans within your authority’s children’s services in the following financial years?
i. 2017/18
ii. 2018/19
iii. 2019/20
iv. 2020/21
v. 2021/22
This data is available publicly and is available here: Create your own tables, Table Tool – Explore education statistics – GOV.UK (explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk) We cannot provide the 2021/22 data as this data return is currently in process and the data hasn’t been validated yet.
c) How many children exited child protection plans within your authority’s children’s services in the following financial years?
i. 2017/18
ii. 2018/19
iii. 2019/20
iv. 2020/21
v. 2021/22
This data is available publicly and is available here: Create your own tables, Table Tool – Explore education statistics – GOV.UK (explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk) We cannot provide the 2021/22 data as this data return is currently in process and the data hasn’t been validated yet.

6.
a) How many children in total were categorised as ‘in need’ within your authority’s children’s services in the following financial years?
i. 2017/18
ii. 2018/19
iii. 2019/20
iv. 2020/21
v. 2021/22
This data is available publicly and is available here: Create your own tables, Table Tool – Explore education statistics – GOV.UK (explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk) We cannot provide the 2021/22 data as this data return is currently in process and the data hasn’t been validated yet.
b) How many children were newly assessed as ‘in need’ within your authority’s children’s services in the following financial years?
i. 2017/18
ii. 2018/19
iii. 2019/20
iv. 2020/21
v. 2021/22
This data is available publicly and is available here: Create your own tables, Table Tool – Explore education statistics – GOV.UK (explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk) We cannot provide the 2021/22 data as this data return is currently in process and the data hasn’t been validated yet.
c) How many children were removed from the ‘in need’ category within your authority’s children’s services in the following financial years?
i. 2017/18
ii. 2018/19
iii. 2019/20
iv. 2020/21
v. 2021/22
This data is available publicly and is available here: Create your own tables, Table Tool – Explore education statistics – GOV.UK (explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk) We cannot provide the 2021/22 data as this data return is currently in process and the data hasn’t been validated yet.

7. In the following years, how much was spent by your authority’s children’s services on early help and prevention services?
i. 2011/12
ii. 2017/18 - 1,998,223
iii. 2018/19 - 1,911,322
iv. 2019/20 - 1,919,748
v. 2020/21 - 2,001,496
vi. 2021/22 - 2,190,775
Please Note:
• I have excluded 2011/12 as I am not clear on the accounting structure back then and cannot be sure this is reliable.
• These are the net numbers including all costs and any grant incomes.
• Please note we did not have a COMPASS team before 2020/21

8. On 1 April in the following financial years, how many children designated as ‘in need’ or as a child protection case were either not yet allocated a social worker or had been given a holding allocation?
i. 2018 - 0
ii. 2019 - 0
iii. 2020 - 0
iv. 2021 - 0
v. 2022 - 0