§ Mr. Moonmanasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many social work staff in social services' departments are currently employed at grades above that of senior social worker; and what proportion of the total social work staff this represents.
§ Mr. DeakinsIt is provisionally estimated that the whole-time equivalent of 2,800 senior directing, managing, professional and advisory staff were in post in England on 30th September 1975 but it is not known how many of them were social work staff. They constituted some 12 per cent. of the total number of senior staff and headquarters, are office and field social work staff and about 11 per cent. of the total number of all staff employed in local authority social service departments. The figures given are not directly comparable with those for September 1974 because the classification of senior staff has now been refined and senior social workers have been separately identified.