Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government has allocated to the training of children’s social care workers in the last three years.

The Department for Education funds the training of children’s social care workers through fast-track initial education courses for students intending to become child and family social workers and for continuing professional development programmes. The amounts for the last three years are set out in the table below.

In addition and separate to this funding, there is a cross-government commitment and the Department for Health and Social Care funds the training of child and family social workers through investment in bursaries and other support for those following general courses of initial social work education.