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Social Workers

Asked by Shaun DaviesLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 28 May 2025UIN 51996

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many social workers there are by gender in each region.

Answered by Janet Daby

Information on child and family social workers, including breakdowns by worker characteristics, is published annually in the Children’s Social Work Workforce Official Statistics release. This can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-s-social-work-workforce/2024. The number of full-time equivalent and headcount child and family social workers at 30 September 2024 by region and sex can be accessed at the following link: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/de240ca3-343f-4d8c-1fa1-08dd8e2f6934.

Note that since 2024, data has been collected on the sex of workers, whereas previously data was collected on gender.

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