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Case Load Guide for Children’s Social Care
This chapter was added to the manual in October 2017.
| Team | Role | Recommended caseload range | |
| MASH | SW / SP | N/A | |
| R&A Teams | SW / SP | Duty system on 3 weekly rotation. 1 week of duty intake spread across the team dependent on referral rates. (16-18 children across the service) |
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| Child Protection & Family Support | SW / SP | 16 – 18 Children | |
| Staying Together | SW | 5 as primary practitioner + 5 as secondary practitioner | |
| Disabled Children's Service | SW / SP | 28 – 30 Children Combination of active children receiving complex CIN packages & cases receiving direct payments requiring annual reviews |
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| Children in Our Care | SW / SP | 16 – 18 Children | |
| PA | 20 – 25 Young People | ||
| Adoption Team | SW / SP | 12 – 22 Mixed caseload of children and assessments of prospective adopters. |
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| Fostering Recruitment & Assessment | SW / SP | 5 – 8 Assessments | |
| Fostering Support | SW / SP | 18 – 20 Foster Carers | |
| Independent Reviewing & Conference Team | IRO | 50 – 70 Children in Our Care | |
| CP Chairs | 14 – 18 CPC's per month / 160 – 180 CPC's per year. | ||
| Various teams | NQSW | Graduated across the ASYE. General rule: NQSW's start with half of the caseload of their host team and incrementally increase. Example below |
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| Months 1 & 4 Months 5 & 6 Months 7 & 8 Months 9 & 10 Months 10 & 11 Month 12 |
Up to 8 9 - 10 11 – 12 13 – 14 15 – 16 16 – 18 |
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