Children's social worker workforce data

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Loredana Grigore

Dear Barking and Dagenham Borough Council,

I am attempting to make an assessment of the impact of the IR35 changes that were made by the government in April as they impact upon the children’s services social worker workforce. I have data from Statistics: Children's social work workforce SFR08/2017 which gives me data for LAs as at September 30th last year.
Please advise the percentage of children’s services social workers as at the date at which you have the most recent information (indicating the date of course) who were directly employed by your Local Authority; employed on an agency basis; and the percentage of posts that were vacant.

Yours faithfully,

Loredana Grigore

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham,

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Our reference: 4610034

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Thank you for your request for information that was received on 8 August
2017 concerning the percentage of children's services social workers as at
the date at which you have the most recent information (indicating the
date of course) who were directly employed by your Local Authority;
employed on an agency basis; and the percentage of posts that were vacant.
 
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London Borough of Barking and Dagenham,

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Dear Sir/Madam
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 8 August 2017.
 
Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides two distinct but
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*        The duty to inform the applicant whether or not information is
held by the authority and, if so,
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We can confirm that the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham holds the
information requested, please see below.

Please advise the percentage of children's services social workers as at
the date at which you have the most recent information (indicating the
date of course) who were directly employed by your Local Authority;
employed on an agency basis; and the percentage of posts that were
vacant. 

Latest data is at the end of June 2017 (Q1 17/18)

Employed directly by Local authority                     47%

Agency                                                                   48%

Vacant                                                                    5%

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