Council improves to ‘good’ after increasing social worker numbers to cut caseloads
Community Care
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
A council criticised by inspectors for high caseloads has improved to a good Ofsted rating after hiring more social workers to reduce workloads. The council’s full-time equivalent of social workers rose from 345 to 368 between 2017 and 2020, during which time average caseloads fell from 19.5 Direct work praised.
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