Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many social worker vacancies there are in (a) each discipline, (b) each region and (c) Sheffield.

Information on the number of local authority children’s social work vacancies in local authorities in England is collected on an annual basis as at 30 September. The most recent data as at 30 September 2015 was published by the Department for Education on 25 February 2016 and is available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childrens-social-work-workforce-2015

Information on the number of local authority adult social worker vacancies as at 30 September 2015 was similarly published by NHS digital in February 2016 and is available online at:

http://content.digital.nhs.uk/article/2021/Website-Search?productid=20238&q=personal+social+services&sort=Relevance&size=10&page=1&area=both#top