Children: Social Workers
(asked on 19th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) new children’s social workers entering the profession and (b) children’s social workers leaving the profession in 2022.
This question was answered on 27th January 2023
In the year ending 31 March 2022, around 3,000 newly qualified child and family social workers were supported through the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment, which is the programme social workers undertake when they enter the profession.
2022 data is not available. In the year ending 30 September 2021, around 2,800 child and family social workers left children’s services in local authorities.