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Net Total Expenditure on adult social care (11367) Metric type
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- Net Total Expenditure on adult social care. Net current expenditure is useful for understanding how much of adult social care is funded from local authority monies be they raised locally such as council tax (including the adult social care precept), business rates, etc, or where they are centrally funded such as the improved Better Care Fund or the local government finance settlement. Net current expenditure removes capital charges and external income and is thus not impacted by changes in client contributions and income from the NHS, the two largest income components.
As a result of the Zero Based Review (ZBR), there have been a number of changes to the national data collections for adult social care since the 2013-14 reporting year. The changes that have an impact on the Personal Social Services: Expenditure and Unit Costs publication are the replacement of the old return (PSS-EX1) with the Adult Social Care Finance Return (ASC-FR) collection in 2014-15 and the introduction of the Equalities and Classifications Framework (EQ-CL), which has resulted in changes to some of the data collected as part of this process. Due to changes in the composition of social care funding and expenditure over time, caution should be exercised when considering long-term trends.
Any comparison using this data from 2020/21 and 2021/22 must take into account the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on both activity numbers and spending. The differing scale of cases around the country, when the impacts occurred, and financial support provided will also affect any comparison between authorities. This makes any form of comparative analysis much more complicated and potentially misleading.
- Modified
- 19 Oct 2023
- Data last updated
- 27 Oct 2023
- Short label
- Net Total Expenditure on adult social care
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- £'000
- Dataset
- Reference tables: Expenditure and income, by finance type and finance description
- Source
- NHS Digital
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