The findings also show that more than a fifth of children's social workers are having to handle more than 30 cases at a time with more than 40 per cent saying they are supporting in excess of 20 cases at once.
The online survey of social workers, which attracted 210 responses, revealed that 32 per cent of workers believe lighter caseloads would help improve their practice.
A further 73 per cent of respondents received less than 30 hours professional development in the last year, despite the fact that social workers are required to undertake 90 hours of post registration training and learning over three years to maintain social work registration.
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