Collection of Client Level Adult Social Care Data (No 3) Directions 2023

The purpose of these Directions is to deliver comprehensive data about adult social care services and enable key aspects of adult social care service provision and integrated health pathways across England to be analysed and reported on at a national level.

This will also enable local government and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) to fulfil their statutory functions, in connection with the provision of health services and of adult social care in England for example, functions of local authorities by virtue of Part 1 of the Care Act 2014, such as

• monitoring, at a population level, particular cohorts of service users and designing analytical models which support more effective interventions in health and adult social care
• monitoring service and integrated care outcomes across a pathway or care setting involving adult social care
• developing, through evaluation of person-level data, more effective prevention strategies and interventions across a pathway or care setting involving adult social care
• designing and implementing new payment models across health and adult social care
• understanding current and future population needs and resource utilisation for local strategic planning and commissioning purposes including for health, social care and public health needs

Sections 254(1) and (6), 260(2)(d), 261(3), 262(3)(b), 262(7) and 304(9), (10) and (12) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and Regulation 32 of the National Institute for Health and Social Care Excellence (Constitution and Functions) and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Functions) Regulations 2013.

The Collection of Client-Level Adult Social Care Data (No 2) Direction issued on 7 December 2020 will be revoked once the new collection is operational and its provisions fully meet the requirements set out in the 2020 Direction, as determined by the Department of Health and Social Care.

This Direction came into force 9 June 2023.