Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a child care social worker can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a child care social worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Child care social workers provide social services to children and their families in order to improve their social and psychological functioning. They aim to maximize family's well-being and protect children from abuse and neglect. They assist adoption arrangements and find foster homes where needed.

Professionals 68 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 77%

education welfare officer 77% covered residential childcare worker 73% covered residential home young people… 72% covered social worker 71% covered residential home adult care w… 70% covered child care social worker You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from child care social worker. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a child care social worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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child care social worker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a child care social worker already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.