1. The total number of child relinquishment requests per year for each of the last ten years. For the avoidance of doubt, this refers to instances where birth or adoptive parents contacted the local authority requesting that Children’s Social Care Services assume care responsibility for a child.
This information is not recorded by Wokingham Borough Council

2. For the calendar years 2023 and 2024, and for 2025 if available:
• The number of referrals received by Children’s Social Care Services where domestic abuse was recorded as a factor; and
If 2025 figures are incomplete, please provide whatever data is currently available and specify the date range that the data covers.
2023: 503
2024: 621
2025: 361

3. For each of the last five years, please provide either:
• The annual staff (or ideally just social worker, if these figure exist) sickness or absence rate already held by the authority (for example, percentage of working time lost), or • If no such percentage is routinely recorded, the total number of working days lost to sickness/absence and the total number of contracted working days for Children’s Social Care Services staff in each year.
WBC record absence over a rolling 12 month period. This is calculated as number of FTE Days Absent, and also Average FTE per Employee. Provided below is Children’s Services Qualified Social Worker post information.
2021 – 835.91 FTE Days Absent, 9.68 Average FTE per Employee
2022 – 878.15 FTE Days Absent, 9.3 Average FTE per Employee
2023 – 1176.03 FTE Days Absent, 12.55 Average FTE per Employee
2024 – 558.89 FTE Days Absent, 5.61 Average FTE per Employee
2025 – 506.61 FTE Days Absent, 4.57 Average FTE per Employee

4. The average caseload, and the average number of children (if different) held by qualified social care workers in:
• Frontline child protection assessment teams;
• Safeguarding teams for each of the last five years.
The following link provides the response to this question:
https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-s-social-work-workforce/2025