This is what adult social care actually costs the council after all the money coming in — contributions from care users, NHS payments and other income — is subtracted from the gross bill. It matters because this is the amount that has to be funded from council tax and government grants: the true burden on the local budget. A high figure usually reflects greater need or higher costs; comparing it with the gross figure shows how much of the bill the council manages to offset with income.
| name | asc_net_current_expenditure |
|---|---|
| dataset | 07-adult-social-care-finance |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000s |
| grain | council (CASSR), keyed on GEOGRAPHY_CODE |
| role | feature |
| source | data/data-pack-2024-25/adult-social-care-finance-report-2024-2025-csv-data-tables.csv; filter GEOGRAPHY_LEVEL='Local Authority' AND DATA_Level='Net Current Expenditure' AND CareType='99' AND AgeBand='99' AND PrimarySupportReason='99' AND SupportSetting='99'; add DimensionGroup='Expenditure' to deduplicate |
| period | FY 2024-25 (FY_ENDING=2025) |
| missingness | Suppressed/missing cells are `[x]` — treat as NA, never zero |
| score_note | Near-duplicate of RSX_asc_net_cur_exp in dataset 01; dedup quirk and raw total limits its signal. |
| peer_group | CASSRs (the 153 social-care authorities) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Gross ASC spend minus all income (client contributions, NHS, joint arrangements, other) — the cost falling on the council's own budget. Caveat: this grand-total row appears twice per council (once under DimensionGroup='Expenditure', once under 'Additional Data') with identical values — deduplicate or add DimensionGroup='Expenditure' to the filter.