Workforce Data Standards

Data Standards Documentation

The final workforce data standards have been published by the LGA, DCSF and its partners. A review process will revisit the standards in approximately 18 months time (around September 2011) but no changes will be made to the data standards without full consultation with all partners and the sector as a whole.

Workforce Data Standards (Word doc, 3660KB)

Workforce Data Standards (PDF, 194 pages, 2003KB)

For more information on the origins and development of the standards please visit the Background and Vision Page.

For Frequently Asked Questions and Answers please visit the FAQs Page.

Job Roles

The workforce data standards includes a job role code set which covers 175 job roles undertaken in the provision of local government services, including children's and adults' social care services. The full list of job roles is provided below:

Job Role Codeset (XLS, 73KB)

A set of guidance documents has been provided to enable operational users in research, statistical and client-oriented applications to use the job role coding in as consistent a way as possible and to enable users of any resulting data to understand the principles of classifications and coding practices according to which those data are produced. The guidance consists of three elements:

volume 1: Job Role Guidance (Word doc, 2930KB)

This describes the principles, concepts and conventions used in the development of the job roles and provides detailed job role profiles (including typical tasks, training and qualifications and example job titles related to each role). At the time of publication only 110 of the 175 job roles have profiles provided. These profiles should be considered to be draft and will be reviewed and consulted upon over the coming 12 months before the guidance is finalised.

volume 2: Job Role Index (pending)

This will be a searchable alphabetical index of job titles, giving the most likely job role to which each is assigned. It is designed for use in coding occupations. It will also provide a tool for helping identify the correct role within the role code hierarchy.

volume 3: Job Role Mapping

This provides mapping details between the job roles detailed here and the classifications used in major workforce collections. Currently this covers the School Workforce Census and the National Minimum Dataset for Social Care.

Mapping SWF job role guidance (Word doc, 122KB)

Mapping Table - job role to SWF (XLS, 82KB)

Mapping Table - SWF to job role (XLS, 54KB)

Mapping NMDS-SC job role guidance (Word doc, 149KB)

Mapping Table - job role to NMDS (XLS, 77KB)

Mapping Table - NMDS to job role (XLS, 36KB)

Contact: ben.hickman@lga.gov.uk

Telephone: 020 7664 3190