The Department for Education figures are for January so far and are an increase on data collected late last year.
Between October and December 2021 no councils reported that this proportion of their children’s social care workforce was prevented from working due to the health crisis.
Staff absences due to the pandemic are worse among residential care staff, the figures suggest.
Some 23 per cent of councils are reporting that more than one in ten of those working in children's homes are sidelined with the virus. This is up on the four per cent of councils reporting such an impact on their residential care workforce in November to December last year. However, the DfE points out that some councils have small residential care workforces which may skew these figures.
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