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Overview
Child care social workers support children and families so social and psychological functioning can improve, with attention to well-being, protection from harm, adoption arrangements and foster care when needed.
In job descriptions, look for child welfare assessment, family support, social counselling, case management, safeguarding, care planning, youth development, cultural communities and cooperation with carers or service users.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Child care social worker work centers on children and families where well-being, safety or social functioning needs support. The work can include family conversations, child welfare assessment, care planning, safeguarding, adoption arrangements and finding foster homes when family care is not enough.
Skills and specializations
The important skill mix is social counselling, case management, youth development assessment, anti-oppressive practice and protection of vulnerable service users. Specialization can focus on child protection, family support, foster care, adoption processes or culturally diverse community work.
Pay context
Pay expectations depend on child welfare case complexity, family responsibility, urgency, documentation load and the level of independent judgement. Compare roles by whether they carry child-protection decisions, family meetings, foster-home coordination, adoption arrangements or supervision of social services case work.
Career paths
Career paths may lead toward senior child welfare practice, specialist safeguarding, foster-care coordination, adoption support or practice supervision. A credible development route deepens judgement about children, families, risk and care planning rather than moving into vague social-service administration.
Good to know
A useful vacancy should make the child and family remit explicit. Look for wording about assessment, home or community contact, safeguarding, adoption, foster homes, care planning, cooperation with carers and how urgent concerns are recorded and escalated.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include family social worker, consultant social worker and migrant social worker.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
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The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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Click the map to search for child care social worker jobs. Figures come from EURES. Searches open national sources where available, so counts may differ.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
Child, Family, and School Social Workers
21-1021.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Mapping project version 1: O*NET-SOC 2019 → ESCO 1.1.0. Targets are validated against ESCO 1.2.1.
Source: European Commission, joint ESCO Secretariat and USDOL/ETA project. O*NET Database: USDOL/ETA. This presentation uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
88.99Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.
Alternative labels
Occupation group
social worker (2635.3)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0d423a2e-6fb7-4704-8544-bd6c522b3c62 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2635.3.2 |
| ISCO group | 2635 |
| Concept type | Occupation |