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Board hears social‑work workload data as administrators press need for more staff
Summary
District staff reported rising recorded incidents that involve crisis response and social‑work support (595 recorded incidents in FY24–25; 207 had social‑worker lead), and administration urged clearer workload quantification to justify additional social‑worker FTEs in the proposed budget.
Administrators told the Southington Board of Education they are seeing substantial demand for social‑work services and provided incident counts to support an additional hire request. Mr. Pepe and staff described a "day in the life" survey and tracking that showed, for FY24–25, 595 recorded incidents across the district and 207 incidents where social workers took the lead; halfway through the current year the…
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