Improving intelligence on social worker supply and demand

A model for monitoring the supply and demand of social workers in England has been unveiled by the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI).

Revealed at the National Children and Adult Services Conference 2011, the newly developed model will be made available to trial sites for testing.

The system will gather workforce data to help forecast the numbers of social workers needed in the future. 

It will work by taking actual numbers of social workers at a local level, and estimated time spent per case, plus categorising social workers according to their level of experience, and the cases according to their complexity to produce a forecast.

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