Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the employee turnover rate for social workers in (a) Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, (b) the North East and (c) England in each of the last five years.

Information on the turnover of children’s social workers in local authorities in England has been collected on a comparable basis as of 30 September each year since 2013. The most recent data was published by the department on 16 February 2017 and is available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childrens-social-care-workforce.

The requested data is shown below:

Note: turnover rates have been calculated using the number of leavers during the year ending 30 September as a percentage of the number of children’s social workers at 30 September.