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Adult social care requests
Part of the Public Service Capacity domain. New requests for adult social care support received by local authorities (millions), England, by financial year.
Latest data
Latest reading
2024-25
A higher reading is treated as worse for this indicator.
Score composition
Stress score
Blended from three components: (60% weight), trend (30% weight) and volatility (10% weight). Full formula on the methodology page.
Level · 60% weight
Percentile: this metric is scored against its own history, where today sits between its best and worst recorded years.
Trend · 30% weight
Measured from the direction and size of the change between the two most recent readings.
Volatility · 10% weight
20Measured from how much this indicator has swung period on period across its recorded history.
Data confidence and provenance
Confidence and source
How much weight to put on the reading, the mean data-confidence across the component metrics (source quality, recency and completeness).
Source
Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Reliability
- high
Provenance
- Provider
- NHS England Digital / DHSC
- Series ID
- nhse_ascfr
- Frequency
- Annual
- Accessed
- 7 July 2026
Known weakness
England; counts requests with a determined outcome (not pure demand), and the 2024-25 switch to Client Level Data breaks comparability with earlier years.
Notes
Verified official value from NHS England Digital / DHSC (nhse_ascfr), accessed 2026-07-07.
Historical values
History
| Period | Value | Relative |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1.81 | |
| 2017 | 1.8 | |
| 2018 | 1.84 | |
| 2019 | 1.92 | |
| 2020 | 1.93 | |
| 2021 | 1.92 | |
| 2022 | 1.98 | |
| 2023 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 2.09 | |
| 2025 | 2.02 |