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Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report, England, 2023-24

National statistics, Official statistics, Accredited official statistics

Publication Date:
31 Oct 2024
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Country, Regions, Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs), Ambulance Trusts
Date Range:
01 Apr 2023 to 31 Mar 2024
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An error was identified where the Unit Costs metric for Home care in the ASC-FR CSV files had not populated at national and regional level. We have resolved this issue and reuploaded the CSV file.

The legend of figure 18 in Long Term Care incorrectly displayed values in tens of billions, this has been resolved and reuploaded.

11 November 2024 16:00 PM

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Summary

The October release includes publication commentary, zipped comma-separated values (CSV) data pack, data quality tables and a Power BI interactive tool.

This publication contains data taken from the Adult Social Care Finance Return (ASC-FR) and Short and Long Term (SALT) collection to provide information regarding adult social care activity and finance on Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) in England for 2023-24. CASSRs will be referred to as local authorities throughout this report.

Aggregate data is mandated to be collected from 153 local authorities in England, to provide insight into adult social care activity and expenditure for the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

Key Facts

The England-level statistics for 2023-24 have been estimated as one local authority was not able to submit for SALT and one for ASC-FR.

Gross current expenditure

Gross current expenditure on adult social care by local authorities was £27.1 billion. This represents an increase of £3.4 billion (14.2%) from the previous year.

Expenditure on long term support

Over three quarters (79.1% or £21.4 billion) of total gross current expenditure was spent on long term support, this has increased by £3.0 billion (16.2%) compared to 2022-23.

Long term support

In 2023-24, 858,720 clients received long term care during the year. This has increased by 23,385 clients (2.8%) since 2022-23.

 

Overall, the number of clients receiving long term care has decreased since 2015-16. This downward trend has been mainly driven by a decrease in clients aged 65 and over receiving long term care, down 28,275 to 559,220 since 2015-16.

Requests for support

For the second time, over 2.0 million (2,085,720) requests for adult social care support, were received by local authorities. This is equivalent to 5,715 requests for local authority support received per day in England by local authorities (up 230 requests per day on last year).   

 

Local authorities reported reasons for the fluctuation since last year included services continue to be affected and operating model has evolved post-pandemic, increased complexity of clients, change in recording processes and case management systems, and increased demand for services.

Last edited: 2 December 2024 11:26 am