Our Children’s Social Work Workforce Census dashboard is publicly available on the LIIA website. It uses data from the annual census of the children’s social work workforce published by the Department for Education.

Please access the dashboard here.

This dashboard provides data and insights from the quarterly collection of agency children’s and family social workers in London. It provides a rich source of longitudinal information, with data collected consistently since June 2022. Initially developed within London, the collection was adopted as a statutory return by the Department for Education in 2025.

This data is available through the members’ area, which requires a login.

The London Social Work for Children website showcases employment and professional development opportunities in children’s social work across all of London’s 33 Councils. Our data dashboard, updated monthly, provides insights into recruitment trends and what the latest job data reveals.

This data is available through the members’ area, which requires a login.

Following the pilot agency pay rate collection in November 2025, the first formal agency pay rate collection was undertaken in Q4 2025/26. LIIA is developing a new dashboard to display the data to allow for monitoring and trend analysis at local, sub-regional and regional levels. The dashboard will serve to inform a future regional price cap, taking an evidence-based approach.

The children’s social work workforce census is a statutory collection that requires the return of individual worker information, together with aggregate fields for the collection as a whole. LIIA has collected the children’s social workforce census data from all London local authorities and is currently developing the process to extract and transform this into dashboards that will provide more detailed analysis and insights than are currently available from published data.