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Community Services Statistics, February 2023

Experimental statistics, Official statistics in development

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Community Services Statistics, February 2023


Service Type Issue

A recent code review has revealed that the underlying code for the Service Type measures included in the main csv does not wholly match the methodology described in the publication.  The values historically published included non-within month data and contacts may not have been unique.  Initial investigations show national levels for this measure should have been about 2% lower.  This percentage increases at lower levels of the hierarchy due to the influence of small numbers.

Service Type data in this publication has been fixed, however, comparisons with historic values of this data should be treated with caution until these have also been retrospectively corrected.

3 May 2023 09:30 AM

Summary

This is a monthly report on publicly funded community services for people of all ages using data from the Community Services Data Set (CSDS) reported in England for February 2023. It has been developed to help achieve better outcomes and provide data that will be used to commission services in a way that improves health, reduces inequalities, and supports service improvement and clinical quality.

These statistics are classified as experimental and should be used with caution. Experimental statistics are new official statistics undergoing evaluation. More information about experimental statistics can be found on the UK Statistics Authority website (linked at the bottom of this page).

A provisional data file for March 2023 is now included in this publication. Please note this is intended as an early view until providers submit a refresh of their data, which will be published next month.


Key Facts

This report contains key information based on the submissions that have been made by providers to the Community Services Data Set (CSDS) collection and focuses on data relating to activity that occurred in February 2023 as follows:

For February 2023, 202 providers successfully submitted data with 192 submitting referrals data and 187 submitting care contact data.

There were 1,428,185 referrals received relating to 1,029,190 persons needing care.

Of these: 243k referrals related to 213k children and young people aged 0 to 18, 421k related to 350k adults aged 19 to 64 and 763k related to 465k adults aged 65 and over.

There were 7,638,170 care contacts across all submitters.

Of these: 1.45m related to children and young people age 0 to 18, 1.7m related to adults aged 19 to 64 and 4.48m related to adults aged 65 and over.





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