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Guidance

Children’s social work workforce: guide

Guide for local authorities submitting children’s social work workforce returns for 2025.2026.

From:
Department for Education
Published
26 August 2022
Last updated
1710 SeptemberDecember 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2025:2026: guide

PDF, 494479 KB, 36 pages

Details

This guide is for local authorities preparing a children’s social work workforce return.

It includes information on:

  • submission deadlines
  • data modules

Children’s social work workforce census: guide to submitting data explains how local authorities should collect and submit data.

Updates to this page

Published 26 August 2022
Last updated 1710 SeptemberDecember 2025 + show all updates

  1. Updated for 2026 with 'Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2026 guide’.

  2. We have updated section 3 of the guide, on social worker data items. The updates add details on base salary and the Frontline data item. We have described them fully in the version history.

  3. 'Children's social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2024': updated link to service request form in section 1.5 (change also described in the version history).

  4. Updated 'Children's social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2024'. In section 3 we corrected an error and replaced 'FTE as at 30 September 2023' with 'FTE as at 30 September 2024'.

  5. Added 'Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2025: guide'.

  6. Updated for 2024.

  7. Updated guide for 2023.

  8. First published.

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Update history

2025-12-10 11:16
Updated for 2026 with ‘Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2026 guide’.

2025-09-17 09:39
We have updated section 3 of the guide, on social worker data items. The updates add details on base salary and the Frontline data item. We have described them fully in the version history.

2024-11-18 09:41
‘Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2024’: updated link to service request form in section 1.5 (change also described in the version history).

2024-06-25 16:33
Updated ‘Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2024’. In section 3 we corrected an error and replaced ‘FTE as at 30 September 2023’ with ‘FTE as at 30 September 2024’.

2024-04-30 13:44
Added ‘Children’s social work workforce census, year ending 30 September 2025: guide’.

2024-03-22 11:44
Updated for 2024.

2023-07-18 16:58
Updated guide for 2023.

2022-08-26 16:41
First published.