1. What was your staff turnover rate for registered social workers working in child protection or with children in need in each of the following years? (Where staff turnover is calculated as the headcount of full-time equivalent (FTE) registered social workers leaving in the year divided by the headcount of FTE registered social workers in post at 1 January)
Please note current reporting system does not break down qualified social workers by individual team and is for the recorded category “ Social Worker/OT qualified” therefore the data provided is the staff turnover rate for registered social workers/OT qualified staff across all teams in Childrens Services not just CIN or CP teams.
a) 2017:18.49%
b) 2018: 26.45%
c) 2019: 7.75%
d) 2020: 10.46%
e) 2021: 14.36%

2. What was your staff turnover rate for social work assistants working in child protection or with children in need in each of the following years? (Where staff turnover rate is calculated as the headcount of full-time equivalent (FTE) social work assistants leaving in the year divided by the headcount of FTE social work assistants in post at 1 January)
Our current reporting system does not categorise assistant social workers as separate to unqualified social worker employees nor does it categorise by individual teams. We are therefore unable to provide a response to this question.

3. In your authority’s children’s services department, what percentage of your registered social worker headcount was defined as newly qualified on 1 January in the following years?
a) 2018: 5 ASYE (percentage not available)
b) 2019: 5 ASYE (percentage not available)
c) 2020: 7 ASYE (5.9%)
d) 2021: 8 ASYE (6.7%)
e) 2022: 8 ASYE (6.7%)

4. In your authority’s children’s services department, how many full time equivalent registered social workers were in post on 1 January in each of the following years?
Data provided is for the recorded category “social worker/OT qualified” and includes FTC Posts
a) 2018: 57.04 FTE
b) 2019: 55.56 FTE
c) 2020: 59.93 FTE
d) 2021: 77.63 FTE
e) 2022: 80.62 FTE

5. In your authority’s children’s services department, how many full-time equivalent agency staff were you employing as social workers on 1 January in each of the following years?
Data provided is for the recorded category “social worker/OT qualified” and includes FTC Posts
a) 2018: 7 FTE
b) 2019: 33 FTE
c) 2020: 28 FTE
d) 2021: 26 FTE
e) 2022: 15.05 FTE

6. Do you have a shortage of social workers in your authority’s children’s services department? If yes, how many full time equivalent social worker vacancies were recorded on your system as of 1 January 2022?
Yes, 5 vacant SW posts

7. What was the total amount spent by your authority’s children’s services department on agency social workers in each of the following years:
a) 2017: No available
b) 2018: £1,959,389
c) 2019: 2,460,113
d) 2020: £2,537,083
e) 2021: £1,788,396