Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the range of rates paid to agencies by local authorities was for children's social care workers in (a) the South-East and (b) England in each of the last five years.

The Department for Education holds the policy responsibility for children’s social care, while local authorities hold the duty to deliver children’s social care services, employ child and family social workers and make decisions about social worker renumeration. The department does not collect nor hold data from local authorities on child and family social worker pay, including on agency pay rates.