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Question

Leadership 1. The name of the Statutory Director of Social Services 2. How long the Statutory Director of Social Services has been in this post at your authority. 3. The name of the Chair of your Local Safeguarding Children Board and/or the regional Safeguarding Children Board with which your authority is engaged Finance 4. The budget for children and young people’s services (excluding education) in this financial year and the preceding five years. 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19 & 2017/18 Workforce For social work services for children and young people: 5. Total FTE Children’s Social Workers 6. Total FTE Newly Qualified Social Workers in role for less than 2 years 7. % Turnover rate 8. % Agency worker rate 9. % Vacancy rate 10. % Absence rate Caseloads 11. Number of cases held by children’s social workers on the date of this request 12. Number of cases held by children’s social workers on 31 March for the preceding five years. 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19 & 2017/18 13. The average number of cases held by individual social workers on the date of this request. 14. The average number of cases held by individual social workers on 31 March for the preceding five years. 2021/22, 2020/21, 2019/20, 2018/19 & 2017/18 Reviews 15. The Number of Concise Reviews undertaken in the year 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 for children’s social workers 16. The Number of Extended Learning Reviews undertaken in the year 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 for children’s social workers

Answer

1. Lisa Curtis-Jones 2. 8 Years 3. Lisa Curtis-Jones 4. 2022/23 – 15,162.796 (£000s) 2021/22 -15,421.233 (£000s) 2020/21 -14,821.888 (£000s) 2019/20 -14,899.650 (£000s) 2018/19 -12,893.307 (£000s) 2017/18 – 12,831.044 (£000s) 5. 31.20 6. Unfortunately Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council does not record this information as we have no requirement to capture this information. 7. 2022/23 – 8.62% 8. There are no agency workers currently supplied, we are not aware of the number off-contract agency workers. 9. 0 10. 0.61% As a % of child services absences 0.031% As a % of the authority as a whole 11. 1087 Cases 12. 31/03/2022 = 1112 Cases 31/03/2021 = 1053 Cases 31/03/2020 = 990 Cases 31/03/2019 = 1054 Cases 31/03/2018 = 1078 Cases 13. 11 Cases 14. 31/03/2018 = 10 Cases 31/03/2019 = 9 Cases 31/03/2020 = 9 Cases 31/03/2021 = 10 Cases 31/03/2022 = 11 Cases 15. We are unable to provide a response to this question as we are unclear as to what you would consider to be a Concise Reviews. 16. We are unable to provide a response to this question as we are unclear as to what you would consider to be an Extended Learning Review.