Although the number of child protection officers in each local authority is not collected by the Government, the NHS Information Centre does collect and publish data relating to the number of social care staff directly employed by councils. The number of child protection officers is collected as part of this larger group of social care staff, although child protection officers and senior child protection officers are recorded in different categories (as follows). However, it is not possible to split child protection officers from these groups.
Child protection officers are part of the category 2.35—child protection, family placement, juvenile/youth justice workers. Senior child protection officers are part of the category 2.31—assistant team managers/senior social workers.
Table 1 shows the total headcount of staff for each local authority in England under these two categories as at 30 September 2007.
Rounded number ‘2.31’ Assistant team managers/senior social workers ‘2.35’ Child protection, family placement, juvenile/youth justice workers England 4,515 5,245 Barking and Dagenham 30 35 Barnet 60 15 Barnsley 25 1— Bath and N. E. Somerset 15 1— Bedfordshire 30 5 Bexley 25 1— Birmingham 95 305 Blackburn 15 20 Blackpool 15 30 Bolton 25 30 Bournemouth 15 30 Bracknell Forest 10 15 Bradford 70 0 Brent 15 30 Brighton and Hove 95 75 Bristol 0 1— Bromley 75 25 Buckinghamshire 20 35 Bury 15 20 Calderdale 15 10 Cambridgeshire 60 40 Camden 40 35 Cheshire 0 30 City of London 1— 0 Cornwall 30 0 Coventry 20 90 Croydon 70 30 Cumbria 35 105 Darlington 1— 1— Derby 1— 1— Derbyshire 15 25 Devon 1— 55 Doncaster 25 70 Dorset 35 45 Dudley 35 75 Durham 20 40 Ealing 50 20 East Riding 15 35 East Sussex 55 110 Enfield 25 30 Essex 265 15 Gateshead 15 20 Gloucestershire 40 40 Greenwich 35 35 Hackney 35 25 Halton 0 1— Hammersmith and Fulham 50 5 Hampshire 30 35 Haringey 60 20 Harrow 10 15 Hartlepool 5 1— Havering 25 0 Herefordshire 10 15 Hertfordshire 90 160 Hillingdon 40 30 Hounslow 20 40 Isle of Wight 20 25 Isles of Scilly 0 0 Islington 45 25 Kensington and Chelsea 20 20 Kent 230 195 Kingston-upon-Hull 0 90 Kingston-upon-Thames 25 10 Kirklees 25 60 Knowsley 20 1— Lambeth 25 1— Lancashire 20 0 Leeds 15 145 Leicester 40 45 Leicestershire 30 20 Lewisham 40 10 Lincolnshire 45 30 Liverpool 1— 75 Luton 25 15 Manchester 65 80 Medway Towns 15 25 Merton 10 30 Middlesbrough 15 35 Milton Keynes 10 30 N. E. Lincolnshire 15 25 N. Lincolnshire 10 20 Newcastle upon Tyne 15 50 Newham 15 65 Norfolk 80 45 North Somerset 10 30 North Tyneside 10 20 North Yorkshire 40 120 Northamptonshire 70 20 Northumberland 1— 55 Nottingham 5 1— Nottinghamshire 45 10 Oldham 5 35 Oxfordshire 95 50 Peterborough 25 45 Plymouth 20 0 Poole 25 10 Portsmouth 10 5 Reading 20 20 Redbridge 25 20 Redcar and Cleveland 1— 15 Richmond upon Thames 1— 15 Rochdale 10 55 Rotherham 15 30 Rutland 1— 0 Salford 1— 65 Sandwell 15 55 Sefton 25 25 Sheffield 10 20 Shropshire 25 30 Slough 20 20 Solihull 35 25 Somerset 10 50 South Gloucestershire 50 5 South Tyneside 15 105 Southampton 30 20 Southend 25 35 Southwark 105 30 St. Helens 10 20 Staffordshire 60 90 Stockport 10 45 Stockton-on-Tees 5 25 Stoke-on-Trent 60 35 Suffolk 35 0 Sunderland 30 150 Surrey 90 15 Sutton 35 25 Swindon 25 10 Tameside 15 0 Telford and Wrekin 20 35 Thurrock 30 20 Torbay 10 1— Tower Hamlets 25 40 Trafford 20 10 Wakefield 20 15 Walsall 30 10 Waltham Forest 25 25 Wandsworth 60 35 Warrington 15 1— Warwickshire 10 1— West Berkshire 10 20 West Sussex 100 80 Westminster 30 55 Wigan 20 35 Wiltshire 25 40 Windsor and Maidenhead 10 20 Wirral 20 85 Wokingham 5 15 Wolverhampton 0 0 Worcestershire 40 55 York 0 0 1 Values of less than five. Note: This table is based on the job title as defined by the individual local authority. Therefore staff with child protection responsibilities may be recorded elsewhere within the return under a different job title. Source: SSDS001 Return, 2008
The numbers of children who have been made subject to child protection plans in Doncaster, in each of the last five years, are shown in table 9a of the following Statistical First Release:
Referrals, Assessments and Children and Young People who are the subject of a Child Protection Plan, England—year ending 31 March 2008 .
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