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NHS Digital report details local authority spend on social care
Statistics published by by NHS Digital show local authorities spent £21.2 billion on adult social care in 2020-1.
The Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report report contains aggregate information submitted by 151 Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) in England, to provide insight into adult social care activity and expenditure for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021.
During that period, gross current expenditure on adult social care by local authorities was £21.2 billion. Almost three quarters (73.6% or £15.6 billion) of total gross current expenditure is spent on long term support, and this is the first year more money has been spent on clients aged 18-64 receiving long term support, rather than those aged 65 and over, since the collection began in 2014-15.
However, the report states that some of the spending in 2020-21 does not directly relate to people whose care is supported by the local authority and so overall totals are not directly comparable with previous years. The rise in spending also reflects an increase in government funding in 2020-21 specifically to support the adult social care sector during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
This is the seventh year of the SALT and ASC-FR collections, and the fifth year in which the adult social care activity and finance data have been brought together in an official statistics report.
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