Children's Services

12 June 2023

Your request

1. As of 01.05.2023- How many full-time staff social workers are currently employed in the children's services department?
2. As of 01.05.2023- How many locum/agency social workers are currently employed/hired within the children's services department?
3. As of 01.05.2023- How many social worker vacancies are there currently in the children's services department? Clarification - all vacant posts even if there is currently an agency worker in place
4. As of 01.05.2023- How many job vacancies does your borough currently have? (Please provide a breakdown for each directorate)
5. As of 01.05.2023- How many social workers had left the LA since 01.01.2023?
6. Please share your recruitment and retention policy/strategy.

 Our response

1. 151
2. 83
3. 116 vacant posts and posts occupied by agency workers.
4. The number of vacancies the Council reported to ONS in May (at the time of information retrieval) is 193.
5. 5
6. Please see attached.