A local authority in the South East wants to recruit more children's practitioners from ethnic minority backgrounds so that its workforce is more ethnically diverse.
Pinaki Ghoshal, executive director of families, children and learning at Brighton & Hove City Council, says that while local authorities are working hard to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities they serve, social workers are mainly white yet are increasingly working with children, young people and families from ethnic minority communities.
In Brighton & Hove, that is certainly the case - latest Department for Education data on the children's sector workforce shows 75 per cent of social workers are white - three per cent higher than the average for the South East and nine per cent above the national figure (see graphics).
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