Social workers

Social workers have the reputation of just “Taking away children” in the UK.  This is a VERY slanted view.  They do a lot more things beside (Whilst this is something that they do, they try and do it as little as possible). They look after families, support them, help with health issue and try and get people some of the best measures that they can.  The thing is, however, the amount of social workers, and their caseloads, is an indicator on how many issues an area has (Like abatement notices).

Social workers also fall into the purview of local councils.  So wouldn't it be good to know what they caseload is and how many of them are there?  Good thing that I asked them all then.  So I asked all Welsh Councils the same questions:

1. How many social workers do you have working for you at time of writing
2. What is the average turnover
3. What is their caseload

Again, turnover is a good indicator of how stressful a job is and what the job is like in their area (Kinda like with Community Psychiatric Notices). So what were the results?  Here you are:

Name	Amount	Turnover	Case Load
Blaenau
Bridgend	137	13.00%	17
Caerphilly	219	26 individuals	16
Cardiff	224	14.56%	18.4
Carmarthenshire	191	14.68%	12
Ceredigion
Conway	121	4 leavers, 19 starters	20
Denbighshire	72 – children, 37 adult	16.8%, less than one	22 child, 25 adult
Flintshire	109	4.6	16
Gwynedd
Anglesey	51	17.60%	23
Merthyr Tydfil	47		18
Monmouth	87	5.74%	35
Neath Port Talbot
Newport	171	16.81	Children\adult = same of 16.40
Pembroke	66	16%	Children - 14 Justice - 12 Adult - 17
Powys
RCT
Swansea	245	6.5	Children = 16, Adult = 27
Torfaen	102	4.13	20 – children
Vale Of Glamorgan	112	10.2	16
Wrexham

Isnt this exciting kids?  Anglesey has the highest turnover. I wonder why that is?  On mostly everything else, they don't do too much to be honest..

The thing that did surprise me is that how high the base loads are. If you take Flintshire, then their case load times the amount of social workers (Giving you the amount of cases they are working on as a whole) is 1744.  

Pretty interesting stuff, isnt it?