How much this council spends each year looking after adults who need care — older people, and adults with disabilities or mental health needs — after subtracting what people pay towards their own care. For most councils this is the single biggest bill they have any control over, so it shapes what is left for everything else. A bigger number mostly means a bigger council or more people needing care, not necessarily waste — so compare it with similar councils, not in isolation.
| name | adult-social-care-total |
|---|---|
| dataset | 01-revenue-outturn |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000 per year |
| grain | council-year |
| role | feature |
| source | data/Revenue_Outturn_time_series_data_v3.2.csv, column `RO3_asctot_net_cur_exp`, with the suffix family `RO3_asctot_empl`, `_run_exp`, `_tot_exp`, `_sfc`, `_tot_inc` |
| period | FY 2017-18 to 2024-25, annual (year_ending 201803-202503) |
| missingness | "Rows with status other than "submitted" (i.e. "total" aggregates and "not submitted") must be filtered out; a non-submitted council-year is a genuine gap, not zero. 2024-25 covers 410/411 councils. Councils abolished/created in 2017-25 reorganisations appear only for the years they existed." |
| score_note | Readily extracted and easy to explain, but raw scale mostly tracks council size; overlaps dataset 07 gross spend. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Total adult social care net current expenditure, plus its gross components: employee costs (_empl is staff expenditure, not headcount), running expenses, total expenditure, sales/fees/charges and total income. ASC is usually the largest controllable budget; the gross-vs-net gap shows charging income. Cross-check against ASC-FR gross spend in sibling dataset 07-adult-social-care-finance.