40% rise in number of social workers quitting children’s posts annually over past five years
Community Care
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
The number of children’s social workers quitting their posts annually has risen by 40% in five years, Department for Education figures have shown. While councils lost 3,880 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in the year to September 2017, this jumped to 5,422 in 2021-22, according to the DfE’s annual workforce census, published yesterday. Though the size of the workforce increased over that time, this was only by 11%, from 28,496 to 31,634 FTE social workers.
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