Please note: The "Activity Data 2008-09" file for this publication was corrected on 25 November 2010. The numbers presented in the Day Care/ Day Services have changed in 2008-09 and are now the number of clients receiving day care or day services per week. In 2007-08 this was the number of day care sessions. This change to the labelling had not been made on the previous version of this annex although the numbers were correct.

Please note: The last two columns in table 2.2 for cash and real terms increases in expenditure headed "Total Adults PSS" was replaced on 05 November 2010. The columns were the wrong way round in previous versions of this table with the figures for cash terms appearing in the column headed real terms and vice versa.

Summary

Information on the money spent on social care by Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities, during 2008-09. It enables analysis of money spent on different types of provision and different client groups within adult services.

Key facts

• Local Authorities have reported an increase in Adult Social Service spend from £15.3 billion in 2007-08 to £16.1 billion in 2008-09, this is approximately 5 per cent in cash terms and 3 per cent real terms. Over a longer term, this represents a real term increase of 13 per cent since 2003-04 and 54 per cent over the 10 years from 1998-99.
• Expenditure on adults aged 18-64 with a Learning Disability has increased from £3.5 billion in 2007-08 to £3.8 billion in 2008-09 (10 per cent in cash terms and 8% in real terms).
• Expenditure on Older People has increased from £8.8 billion to £9.1 billion in 2008-09 an increase of 4 per cent in cash terms and 1 per cent in real terms.
• Expenditure on Asylum Seekers has seen the largest rise of 28 per cent in real terms, although spend for this client group accounts for less than 1 per cent of total adult social care spend. This may in part be due to the transfer of monies between departments into the adult social care budget.
• Expenditure on Residential Care has increased from £7.4 billion in 2007-08 to £7.6 billion in 2008-09 (3 per cent in cash terms and under 1 per cent in real terms. However expenditure on nursing care for older people has fallen by 5 per cent in cash terms and 7 per cent in real terms to £1.4 billion in 2008-09.
• The unit cost of providing residential and nursing care to adults with Learning disabilities has increased by 7 per cent in cash terms and 5 per cent in real terms from £1,047 per person per week in 2007-08 to £1,125 in 2008-09.
• The average cost per adult aged 18 and over supported in residential care, nursing care or intensively in their own home was £593 per person per week in 2008-09, an increase from £559 in 2007-08 (6 per cent in cash terms and 3 per cent in real terms).
• The unit cost of providing nursing care to adults with mental health needs has decreased by 3 per cent in cash terms and 6 per cent in real terms from £670 per person per week in 2007-08 to £648 in 2008-09.
• Expenditure on Day/Domiciliary (non-Residential) care spend has increased in cash terms over 2008-09 by 8 per cent and 5 per cent in real terms from £6.0 billion in 2007-08 to £6.5 billion in 2008-09. This is in line with Government policy to improve independence, choice and promote people's ability to live at home.
• The expenditure on Direct Payments for adults was £610 million in 2008-09. This is an increase of 35 per cent in cash terms and 31 per cent in real terms from 2007-08. The percentage of gross expenditure used for direct payments for adults is increasing and equates to 4 per cent of the overall gross current expenditure in 2008-09.

Please note: We made two corrections on 30 April 2010.

1. Table 3.1 - The figures for Net Current Expenditure in Cash Terms and 2008-09 Prices were corrected
2. Excel annex entitled "Gross and Net Current Expenditure 1994-95 to 2008-09" - Total Net Current Expenditure Excluding Supporting People, and Net Current Expenditure for 18-64 year olds with Physical and Sensory Disabilities excluding Supporting People were corrected.

Access the data

This data is available in our National Adult Social Care Intelligence Service (NASCIS) online analysis tool, which can be found at: http://nascis.ic.nhs.uk/

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This publication was previously released in provisional form on 30 September 2009 as Personal Social Services Expenditure and Unit Costs, England Provisional 2008-09.

The final data from this publication is now available above.

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