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
Reviews
The local authority has a legal responsibility to review the needs of an individual, which may result in a change in care plan for an individual to make sure that their needs continue to be met and they can achieve their desired outcomes. It is the expectation that local authorities should conduct a review of the plan no later than every 12 months. The person themselves also has the right to request a review of their care and support plan, if they wish.
Please Note: local authorities have previously reported a variety of data quality issues relating to their reviews data, for example, allocation between planned/unplanned reviews, reviews recorded as assessments or updates and so not captured as reviews. This should be considered when examining the data relating to this area, and particularly when considering local and national trends.
Key Trends
55.2% of clients who had been in receipt of long-term support for more than a year were reviewed within the reporting period (253,325 clients reviewed out of 458,915 clients in long-term support for more than a year), down from 58.4% in 2020-21. A number of local authorities have advised that the COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect reviews; in 2021-22, with a reduction in formal reviews taking place, due to them being de-prioritised, and lack of staff available to carry them out.
As can be seen in Figure 28, the proportion of clients being reviewed varied by region from 44.8% to 62.9%. The highest review rate can be seen in the North East region.
Source: SALT Collection, 2021-22, NHS Digital - See Table 50 in Data Tables.
Figure 29 shows the number of clients reviewed in the year receiving either a planned review, unplanned review or both carried out within the year. The total number of clients reviewed decreased by 15,105 from 2020-21.
Figure 29: Clients reviewed in the year by review type, 2021-22
Source: SALT Collection, 2021-22, NHS Digital - See Table 50 in Data Tables.
Data is also available on the number of reviews and their outcome. This information can be found in the CSV pack which accompanies this report.
Last edited: 16 February 2024 2:41 pm