Agency child and family social workers: data return and price caps
Operational guidance for local authorities on the data collection and price caps rules on the use of agency child and family social workers.
Applies to England
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Guidance around the new quarterly statutory data collection on the use and pay of agency child and family social workers and the development and implementation of price caps.
Ahead of the first data return, local authorities will have to complete and submit a job mapping exercise to the Department for Education (DfE) to support the development of consistent and comparable price caps. Relevant timelines are detailed in the data and price caps operational guidance.
The guidance includes information on:
- the data being collected
- the supporting rationale
- the job mapping exercise
- data protection
- price caps
- high-level timelines
DfE will add instructions on how to submit the files in due course.
The agency rules statutory guidance, which came into effect on 31 October 2024, is available.
Support and resources
DfE funded Research in Practice to develop resources to support the implementation of the agency rules statutory guidance. Developed in collaboration with Essex County Council and King’s College London, and in consultation with local government and the recruitment sector, these resources are intended to complement the agency rules statutory guidance and this data and price caps operational guidance.
The resources are available on the support for social workers platform.
Updates to this page
Published 13 May 2024Last updated 20 December 2024 + show all updates
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Updated 'Agency child and family social workers: data and price caps operational guidance'. Added 'Agency child and family social workers: assignments data template' and 'Agency child and family social workers: general data template'.
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Updated data and price caps operational guidance and added job mapping template.
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First published.