Less than one in 10 councils know whether social worker’s caseloads have exceeded safe benchmarks in the past year, figures obtained by Community Care have shown.

The responses of 112 local authorities in England to a Freedom of Information request revealed take-up of the recommended standards for employers of social workers has been patchy, and only a small minority have implemented every standard.

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Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.