Adult social care in England statistics: background quality and methodology
How the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) puts together the data in its monthly reports.
Applies to England
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Update history
2024-05-02 09:30
Updated to reflect the removal of COVID-19 full primary course and autumn 2023 booster vaccination data.
2024-04-04 09:30
Updated to reflect addition of estimates of digital social care record uptake and changes to occupancy methodology.
2024-03-07 09:30
Updated to reflect the inclusion of Capacity Tracker derived occupancy data and new figures and information from the client level data collection.
2024-02-01 09:30
Updated to link to acute respiratory infection guidance, which has superseded the COVID-19 supplement to the ‘Infection prevention and control in adult social care settings’ guidance.
2023-11-02 09:30
Updated to reflect the inclusion of COVID-19 autumn booster and flu vaccination data for the 2023 to 2024 season.
2023-10-05 09:30
Updated to reflect when questions on COVID-19 vaccination in social care settings will become mandatory again in Capacity Tracker.
2023-09-07 09:30
Updated to reflect questions on COVID-19 vaccination in social care settings becoming non-mandatory in Capacity Tracker until the seasonal booster campaign begins.
2023-07-06 09:30
Updated to reflect the removal of testing data.
2023-06-01 09:30
Updated to include a new section on equivalent data published by other UK nations.
2023-05-04 09:30
Updated to reflect the end of the collection of flu vaccination data for the 2022 to 2023 season and a change in COVID-19 testing guidance in social care settings.
2023-04-06 09:30
Updated to reflect the end of the collection of COVID-19 autumn booster vaccination data and the upcoming end of the collection of flu vaccination data for the 2022 to 2023 season.
2023-03-02 09:30
Updated to include quality assurance and data validation methods used throughout this publication, and to reflect the upcoming removal of COVID-19 autumn booster vaccination data. Also updated to reflect this publication’s ‘official statistics’ badging.
2023-02-02 09:30
Updated to advise about the correct use of the vaccination rate denominator, and to specify the statistical disclosure control methods applied to data throughout this publication.
2023-01-12 09:30
Updated to specify the dates of the Adult Social Care Information (Enforcement) Regulations 2022, and to add information about a new NHS England publication on vaccination in care settings.
2022-12-01 09:30
Updated the date for the introduction of the enforcement regulation for the Capacity Tracker data provision.
2022-11-03 09:30
Updated to reflect changes in data download dates.
2022-10-06 09:30
Updated to reflect changes to the vaccination data collection and the inclusion of flu data for the 2022 to 2023 season.
2022-09-01 09:30
First published.