Publication, Part of Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report
Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report, England, 2021-22
National statistics, Official statistics, Accredited official statistics
ASC-FR RO3 reconciliation exercise with DLUHC
A piece of work was conducted in partnership with DLUHC to reconcile the difference between ASC-FR and RO3 net current expenditure. Local authorities were contacted and asked to provide comments on why net current expenditure differed in the two returns. The comments have been categorised in the Data Quality Summary excel tables.
23 January 2023 11:15 AM
2016-17 update to cash and real term NCE and GCE figures
Table 4 of the Net Current Expenditure and Gross Current Expenditure Tables the cash and real term figures for 2016-17 have been corrected. The correction has also taken place in the chart - Figure 3 Cash vs Real term
16 February 2024 14:40 PM
Appendix B: Expenditure on adult social care, 2009-10 to 2021-22
1Net current expenditure is total expenditure excluding capital charges and less all income.
2Including Supporting People expenditure, and inclusive of expenditure on assessment, care management and other overheads. For full details on what is included in the ASC-FR collection see: 2021-22 ASC-FR collection, NHS Digital
3The Valuing People Now initiative aimed to give greater independence to young adults with learning disabilities. Responsibility for providing services to this cohort lay with the NHS before being transferred to local authorities in 2008-09. Until 2011-12 funding continued to be provided through the NHS and so was not included in the net expenditure by social services departments. From 2011-12 funding for this initiative was allocated directly to local authorities and therefore is included in the net expenditure of social services departments. The actual value of the transfer is known for 2010-11 only and has been assumed to be flat in real terms (adjusted using the GDP deflators as shown in Appendix A) to provide a figure for previous years.
Source: Local government finance settlement, 2013-14, Department for Communities and Local Government
4These monies are transferred from the NHS to local authorities for the provision of social care services that also benefit health. As they are considered to be income, the sums are not included in the net expenditure reported by social services departments.
For 2014-15, this funding consists of £900m to support adult social care which has a health benefit and an additional £200m for preparing for implementation of mandatory pooled budgets between local authorities and clinical commissioning groups in financial year 2015 to 2016 (i.e. Service integration the Better Care Fund).
Source: Department of Health:
The National Health Service Commissioning Board (Payments to Local Authorities) Directions 2014
NHS SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL CARE: 2010/11 – 2012/13
Funding transfer from the NHS to social care 2013: Directions
5The Better Care Fund (BCF) was introduced in 2015-16. This figure specifically relates to planned spend from the minimum contribution made by CCGs to the total BCF joint fund pool. This figure constitutes jointly agreed planned expenditure classified as ‘Social Care’ in BCF plans (all commissioner types and all provider types) and; planned expenditure that was not classified as ‘Social Care’ but was commissioned from non-NHS providers (local authority, charity/ voluntary sector & private sector; by all commissioner types).
Source: Annual HWB BCF Plan collection by Better Care Support Team, based at NHS England
6These monies are transferred from the NHS to local authorities for the provision of social care services that also benefit health, specifically over the winter period. As they are considered to be income, the sums are not included in the net expenditure reported by social services departments.
Source: Department of Health:
NHS SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL CARE: 2010/11 – 2012/13
7ONS deflators found here https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp-september-2022-quarterly-national-accounts
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