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Financial information

Financial information: before 6 October 2025

Please note – this is the financial information for Local Authorities that have received a site visit from CQC before 6th October 2025. 

This data is reproduced at the request of the Department of Health and Social Care. It has not been factored into our assessment and is presented for information purposes only.

Estimated total budget

This uses the most recent published data.

Total actual spend

This uses the most recent published data.

Estimated adult social care budget

This uses the most recent published data.

Adult social care actual spend

This uses the most recent published data.

Percentage of budget spent on adult social care

This uses the most recent published data.

Data Source Table
  • Numerator: File ‘Revenue outturn service expenditure summary (RSX) YYYY to YYYY’, sheet ‘RSX_LA_Data_YYYY-YY’, column ‘Adult Social Care - Net Current Expenditure’
  • Denominator: File ‘Revenue outturn service expenditure summary (RSX) YYYY to YYYY’, sheet ‘RSX_LA_Data_YYYY-YY’, column ‘Total Service Expenditure - Net Current Expenditure’

Adult social care precept as a percentage (maximum 2%)

This uses the most recent published data.

Data Source Table

File ‘Table 9: Council Tax requirement and chargeable dwelling figures – all authorities, YYYY-YY (revised)’, either:

  • Sheet ‘Data_Billing’, column ‘11b. Adult Social Care precept as a percentage of the YYYY-YY Average Band D (2 Adult equivalent) council tax, excluding local precepts, (maximum 2%)’, or
  • Sheet ‘Data_Precepting’, column ‘5a. Adult Social Care precept as a percentage, (maximum 2%)’

Number of people who have received long-term support

This uses the most recent published data.  

Data relating to the ASC-FR collection are not rounded or suppressed. 

  • Numerator: Number of people who have received long-term support
  • Denominator: N/A
  • Item Type: Count - Raw counts with no other contextualising values
  • Data source: NHS England - Adult Social Care Finance Return (ASC-FR)
  • Data Source Table: File ‘Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report, England YYYY-YY: Data Tables’, Sheet ‘T33’, column ‘In Year: Total’

Number of people who have received short-term support

This uses the most recent published data.  

Data relating to the ASC-FR collection are not rounded or suppressed. 

  • Numerator: Number of people who have received short-term support
  • Denominator: N/A
  • Item Type: Count - Raw counts with no other contextualising values
  • Data source: NHS England - Adult Social Care Finance Return (ASC-FR)
  • Data Source Table: File ‘Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report, England YYYY-YY: Data Tables’, Sheet ‘T28’, column ‘Numbers: Clients’

Financial information: after 6 October 2025

Please note – this is the financial information for Local Authorities that have received a site visit from CQC from 6th October 2025.

This data is reproduced to show local authority spending on their adult social care delivery at the request of Department of Health and Social Care, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services. This is based on publicly available data which all local authorities must publish annually. It has not been factored into our assessment and is presented for information purposes only.  

Please note we have used different sources for adult social care spend where appropriate. Revenue outturn data is submitted by Local Authorities (LAs) to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) as part of reporting on entire LA spend. Whereas, Adult Social Care Financial Return (ASC-FR) is submitted to the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) later in the year. We are aware there are some discrepancies between approaches taken by LAs when submitting this data – even though they should be the same. The DHSC is working with LAs and the MHCLG to align financial data reporting from LAs over the longer term, building on the previous work by NHS Digital. This means that it is not correct to attempt to derive the % of LA’s budget spent on ASC from the figure presented in the second paragraph for the time-being. 

Total spend

Total spend (total net current expenditure) is compared between the most recently two published financial years.

  • Numerator: Total net current expenditure  
  • Denominator: N/A
  • Item Type: Value (currency, GBP)
  • Data source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government - Revenue outturn service expenditure summary (RSX)
  • Data Source Table: File ‘Revenue outturn service expenditure summary (RSX) YYYY to YYYY’, sheet ‘RSX_LA_Data_YYYY-YY’, column ‘Total Service Expenditure - Net Current Expenditure’

Percentage of total spend spent on ASC  

This uses the most recently published data.

  • Numerator: Total net current expenditure on adult social care  
  • Denominator: Total net current expenditure
  • Item Type: Proportion
  • Data source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government - Revenue outturn service expenditure summary (RSX)
Data Source Table
  • Numerator: File ‘Revenue outturn service expenditure summary (RSX) YYYY to YYYY’, sheet ‘RSX_LA_Data_YYYY-YY’, column ‘Adult Social Care - Net Current Expenditure’.  
  • Denominator: File ‘Revenue outturn service expenditure summary (RSX) YYYY to YYYY’, sheet ‘RSX_LA_Data_YYYY-YY’, column ‘Total Service Expenditure - Net Current Expenditure’

Total spend on ASC

Total spend (total net current expenditure) on adult social care is compared between the most recently two published financial years.

  • Numerator: Total net current expenditure on adult social care  
  • Denominator: N/A
  • Item Type: Value (currency, GBP)
  • Data source: Department of Health and Social Care - Adult Social Care Finance Report, England
  • Data Source Table: File ‘Adult Social Care Finance Report, England YYYY-YY: Net Current Expenditure Data Tables’, sheet Table_14, column ‘Total Net Current Expenditure (NCE)’

Total spend on ASC per 100,000 adults

This uses the most recently published data for ASC-FR. The date of the Mid-Year Population Estimates coincides with the financial year, for example, mid 2024 for 2024/25.

  • Numerator: Total net current expenditure on adult social care
  • Denominator: Estimated population per 100,000 adults
  • Item Type: Rate (currency, GBP)
Data source
Data Source Table
  • Numerator: File ‘Adult Social Care Finance Report, England YYYY-YY: Net Current Expenditure Data Tables’, sheet Table_14, column ‘Total Net Current Expenditure (NCE)’
  • Denominator: File ‘Mid-YYYY: 2023 Local Authority boundaries edition of this dataset’, sheet ‘MYE2 – Persons’, sum of age columns 18+

Adult social care precept as a percentage (maximum 2%)

This uses the most recently published data.

  • Numerator: Percentage increase in the amount of money required from council tax payers (precept) – maximum of 2%.
  • Denominator: N/A
  • Item Type: Percentage
  • Data source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government - Council Tax requirements and chargeable figures
Data Source Table

File ‘Table 9: Council Tax requirement and chargeable dwelling figures – all authorities, YYYY-YY (revised)’, either:  

  • Sheet ‘Data_Billing’, column ‘11b. Adult Social Care precept as a percentage of the YYYY-YY Average Band D (2 Adult equivalent) council tax, excluding local precepts, (maximum 2%)’, or
  • Sheet ‘Data_Precepting’, column ‘5a. Adult Social Care precept as a percentage, (maximum 2%)’

Number of people who have received long-term support

This uses the most recently published data.  

  • Numerator: Number of people who have received long-term support
  • Denominator: N/A
  • Item Type: Count - Raw counts with no other contextualising values
  • Data source: Department of Health and Social Care - Adult Social Care Activity Report, England
  • Data Source Table: File ‘Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report, England YYYY-YY: Data Tables’, Sheet ‘Table_33’, column ‘Total – During year’

Number of people who have received short-term support

This uses the most recently published data.  

  • Numerator: Number of people who have received short-term support
  • Denominator: N/A
  • Item Type: Count - Raw counts with no other contextualising values
  • Data source:  Department of Health and Social Care - Adult Social Care Activity Report, England
  • Data Source Table: File ‘Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report, England YYYY-YY: Data Tables’, Sheet ‘Table_28’, column ‘Total - Clients'