This counts how many weeks of care the council actually provided over the year — one person receiving care for one week counts as one "person-week". It matters because spending figures mean little without knowing how much care they bought: two councils can spend the same amount while one helps far more people. A high number means lots of care delivered (often simply a bigger or older population); a low number means less. It is best used alongside spending to work out the cost per week of care.
| name | asc_activity_person_weeks |
|---|---|
| dataset | 07-adult-social-care-finance |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric (family of cuts by care type/setting/age/PSR) |
| unit | person-weeks of care provided in-year |
| grain | council (CASSR) × CareType × SupportSetting × AgeBand × PrimarySupportReason |
| role | denominator |
| source | data/data-pack-2024-25/adult-social-care-finance-report-2024-2025-csv-data-tables.csv; filter GEOGRAPHY_LEVEL='Local Authority' AND DimensionGroup='Activity' AND DATA_Level='TOTAL', by CareType (Long Term Care with SupportSetting Residential/Nursing, or Short Term Care), AgeBand, PrimarySupportReason |
| period | FY 2024-25 (FY_ENDING=2025) |
| missingness | Suppressed/missing cells are `[x]` — treat as NA, never zero |
| score_note | Volume denominator for unit costs; useful check, weak efficiency signal on its own. |
| peer_group | CASSRs (the 153 social-care authorities) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Activity volumes matching the unit-cost denominators — how much care was actually delivered, not just spent. Useful as the denominator when recomputing or checking unit costs, and as a volume signal in its own right when comparing councils of different scale.