Publication, Part of Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report
Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report, England, 2023-24
National statistics, Official statistics, Accredited official statistics
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Reviews
Local authorities have a legal responsibility to review the needs of an individual, which may result in a change in their care plan 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.
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 findings
58.8% of clients who had been in receipt of long-term support for more than a year were reviewed within the reporting period (282,180 clients reviewed out of 480,190 clients in long-term support for more than a year), up from 57.1% in 2022-23. Some local authorities have advised they continue to work through review backlogs created as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As can be seen in Figure 24, the proportion of clients being reviewed varied by region.
Source: SALT collection, 2023-24, NHS England - See Table 50 in Data Tables.
Figure 25 below 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 increased by 15,925 from 2022-23.
Figure 25: Clients reviewed in the year by review type, 2023-24
Source: SALT collection, 2023-24, NHS England - 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.
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