Adult Social Care Finance Return (ASC-FR) webinar slides 2025
Important 2024-25 submission dates plus advice on resolving common data quality issues.
Important dates
| Collection name | Collection window opens | Mandated submission deadline | Validation reports available | Refresh submission deadline | Publication date (provisional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Adult Social Care Finance Return (ASC-FR) |
21 May 2025 | 2 July 2025 | 16 July 2025 | 13 August 2025 | October 2025 |
Data must be submitted to NHS England by 5pm on 2 July 2025.
Validation reports will be available on the 16 July 2025 to all councils that submitted by the deadline.
The final deadline for resubmitting data is by 5pm 13 August 2025.
The 2024 - 2025 collection
Similar to previous years, an enhanced validation report (data quality report sent by the Adult social acre statistics team) will be issued following the first submission window, with as quick a turnaround as possible.
We have the facility for two named submitters to be listed on the Strategic Data Collections Service (SDCS) system for each local authority. If you haven’t already done so, please send an e-mail to the Data Collections Team at [email protected] with details of a back-up person and state it’s for the ASC-FR collection.
Other documents for the 2024-25 collection (dummy template not for completion and guidance) are available on our social care collections webpage.
Submitters must use the latest 2024-25 template for their collection data (downloadable from SDCS), this is the only version that will be accepted by the system.
- FR001 LTS - Long Term Support
- FR002 STS - Short Term Support
- Non SALT totals - Non SALT totals and Summary
- R03 Summary - R03 Summary
- Activity - Related Activity
- Unit Costs - Unit Cost Calculations
Validations
- Data issues - Third Party
- Data issues - System recording
- Data issues - Other
- Data correct - Change in operational practice
- Data correct - Other
Resubmissions
The data collection window will close at 5pm on the mandated deadline day 2 July 2025 and then reopen after the data quality reports have been sent out 16 July 2025.
There will then be a period during which you will be able to resubmit your data, should you wish to do so. This is not compulsory but may be helpful. This service is available until the close of this validation period and this will be the final deadline of 5pm on 13 August 2025.
No data will be accepted after the final deadline.
Support
If you would like to discuss any element of your validation report, data quality or submission contact us using [email protected]; we are here to help.
The most recent submission received by NHS England through SDCS by the final deadline will be used in the Activity and Finance publication.
If you are new to social care or would benefit from a one to one knowledge session with the team about this specific collection then please get in touch with the team at [email protected].
Last edited: 7 November 2024 9:53 am