The NHS Information Centre for health and social care collect and publish data relating to the number of social workers directly employed by social services departments within councils with social services responsibilities.
Data are not collected centrally for the Chesterfield parliamentary constituency.
The following table shows that data for the number of whole-time equivalent social workers per 100,000 head of population for Derbyshire and England as of the 30 September each year from 1997 to 2007.
Data for 2008 are expected to be published in spring 2009.
England Derbyshire 1997 71.4 62.2 1998 72.1 59.6 1999 73.1 62.1 2000 75.0 70.0 20011 76.4 67.7 20021 78.2 72.5 2003 81.1 74.2 2004 82.1 78.9 2005 83.9 78.5 2006 86.5 78.0 2007 87.6 76.2 Notes: 1. Figures are the sum of rounded numbers. Source: SSDS00l