Children’s Social Work teams and agency workers – 2017 to date

Has your local authority employed any entire children’s social work team, sometimes referred to as a managed team, through an agency over the last five years? How many teams have you used ? Please provide details as a year-on-year breakdown.

If so, which area of children’s social care were agency teams employed to cover?

Children & Families and Initial Response Teams – Children in Need (CiN) and Child Protection (CP).

How long were any agency children’s social work teams employed by the local authority – please provide the average length of each assignment?

The request for the teams was for 12 months.

What was the cost of employing children’s social work teams, sometimes referred to as managed teams, through an agency, to the local authority over the last five years, as a year-on-year breakdown?

Please also provide:

details regarding the number of children’s social workers employed individually through an agency by your local authority over the last five years as a year-on-year breakdown.

the cost to the local authority of employing individual children’s social workers (permanent staff not agency) over the last five years.