Adult Social Care Finance Report (ASCFR), England, 2024-25

Publisher and landing page

• Publisher: Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). Note: up to and including 2023-24 this series was published by NHS England (NHS Digital) as the combined "Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report"; from 2024-25 DHSC publishes separate finance and activity reports on GOV.UK.
• Landing page: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/adult-social-care-finance-report-england-2024-to-2025
• Underlying return: Adult Social Care Finance Return (ASC-FR), a mandatory annual submission by every Council with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSR).

Files downloaded (into data/)

Edition: 2024-25, first published 23 October 2025, last updated 13 November 2025 (revised data tables).

1. adult-social-care-finance-report-2024-to-2025-data-tables-13-nov.ods (729 KB) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6915f5b6bc34c86ce4e6e77a/adult-social-care-finance-report-2024-to-2025-data-tables-13-nov.ods
2. adult-social-care-finance-report-nce-data-tables-2024-2025.ods (389 KB) — net current expenditure tables https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68f7962824fc2bb7eed11a8b/adult-social-care-finance-report-nce-data-tables-2024-2025.ods
3. adult-social-care-finance_report-2024-2025-data-pack-24-oct.zip (5.5 MB), unzipped into data/data-pack-2024-25/: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68fba66035dbb2bcedb5f9f8/adult-social-care-finance_report-2024-2025-data-pack-24-oct.zip
   • adult-social-care-finance-report-2024-2025-csv-data-tables.csv (98 MB, ~509k rows) — the full machine-readable cell-level dataset
   • adult-social-care-finance-report-2024-2025-data-quality-table.ods
   • adult-social-care-finance-report-2024-2025-metadata.ods
   • adult-social-care-finance report-2024-2025-uuids.ods

Verified: the main CSV contains per-council rows (columns include CASSR, GEOGRAPHY_CODE, DH_GEOGRAPHY_NAME, region, expenditure/income dimensions, age band, primary support reason, support setting, value). 154 distinct geographies = 153 CASSRs + England aggregate. FY_ENDING = 2025 only (single-year file). Suppressed cells appear as [x].

Granularity, coverage, period

• Granularity: per council (CASSR), with regional and England aggregates in the same CSV (GEOGRAPHY_LEVEL).
• Coverage: England only (153 CASSRs).
• Period: financial year 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025. Gross/net current expenditure, income (client contributions etc.), unit costs of care by care type, setting, age band and primary support reason.

Refresh cadence

Annual. 2024-25 landed 23 October 2025; expect the 2025-26 edition around October–November 2026 (announced on GOV.UK statistics release calendar). Editions are commonly revised a few weeks after first publication (this one was, on 13 Nov 2025).

Re-download

mkdir -p data && cd data
curl -sLO https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6915f5b6bc34c86ce4e6e77a/adult-social-care-finance-report-2024-to-2025-data-tables-13-nov.ods
curl -sLO https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68f7962824fc2bb7eed11a8b/adult-social-care-finance-report-nce-data-tables-2024-2025.ods
curl -sLO https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68fba66035dbb2bcedb5f9f8/adult-social-care-finance_report-2024-2025-data-pack-24-oct.zip
unzip -o adult-social-care-finance_report-2024-2025-data-pack-24-oct.zip -d data-pack-2024-25

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0 (stated on the GOV.UK publication page: "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated").

Caveats

• Prior years not included here. The CSV covers FY 2024-25 only. 2023-24 and earlier were published by NHS England at https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-activity-and-finance-report/2023-24 — that site returns HTTP 403 to non-browser clients (curl and WebFetch both blocked; browser tools were disallowed for this task), so prior-year raw files could not be downloaded. A full back-series collection would need a browser session on digital.nhs.uk (files hosted on files.digital.nhs.uk). Some ODS summary tables in this edition include prior-year comparatives.
• Series discontinuity in 2024-25: publisher changed (NHS England -> DHSC) and the combined activity+finance report was split into two publications; the activity data is a separate release (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/adult-social-care-activity-report-england-2024-to-2025), not included in this dataset folder.
• Small values are suppressed as [x] in the CSV for disclosure control.
• Data are as returned by councils; DHSC publishes a data-quality table (included in the zip) flagging councils with quality issues. Revisions after first publication are normal (13 Nov 2025 revision to the data tables).