Publication - Research and analysis

National Care Service - social care support and service provision: evidence

Published: 21 June 2022
Directorate: Population Health Directorate, +1 more … Social Care and National Care Service Development
Topic: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781804354957

Overview of the key national trends in social care service provision and support in Scotland. It is part of a collection of contextual evidence papers, setting out key sources of information about social care and related areas in Scotland.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 Public Health Scotland (2022) Insights in social care: Statistics for Scotland

2 Figures exclude Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, as data was not submitted. Some other Health and Social Care Partnerships were unable to provide care home information therefore previous year's data were used where possible to provide an estimate.

3 People with only a care home record, a day care record or care at home outside of the ‘census week’ for 2021 or any combination of these items have been excluded. In addition, people with the following services are excluded from this calculation: only a community alarm/telecare service, only a social worker, only a community alarm/telecare service and a social worker, only a meals service.

Figures for Self-directed Support Option 4 have been derived and apply to people who have received more than one self-directed support option at any point during the financial year 2020/21.

People may have more than one Self-directed Support ‘support need’ and/or self-directed Support ‘support organisation’ and therefore could be included in more than one category.

4 SDS figures are based on people of all ages who access social care and support.

5 Due to incomplete data all the Scotland level figures are estimated.

6 Figures for Self-directed Support Option 4 have been derived and apply to people who have received more than one self-directed support option at any point during the financial year.

People may have more than one Self-directed Support ‘support need’ and/or Self-directed Support ‘support organisation’ and therefore could be included in more than one category.

7 Not included in this section are ‘live in’ and 24 hour services that are defined as ‘Housing Support’.

8 See Glossary

9 Some Health and Social Care Partnerships were unable to provide home care information therefore previous year's data were used where possible to provide an estimate. Home care hours collected are actual hours from 2019/20 onwards (where submitted) which may not be directly comparable to planned hours previously collected prior to 2019/20.

10 Scottish Government (2017) Social Care Services Scotland, 2017

11 Some Health and Social Care Partnerships were unable to provide information to Public Health Scotland; Public Health Scotland have provided estimates for partnerships that have not supplied the required data. Details of the estimated figure calculations can be found here: Insights in Social Care: Technology Enabled Care.

12 Scottish Government (2022) Scottish Care Homes Census

13 Henderson DAG, Burton JK, Lynch E, Clark D, Rintoul J, Bailey N. (2019) Data resource profile the Scottish social care survey (SCS) and the Scottish care home census (SCHC). Int J Popul Data Stud 4

14 National Records of Scotland (2022) Mid-year Population Estimates, 2020: Report (nrscotland.gov.uk)

15 Public Health Scotland (2021) Care Home Census for Adults in Scotland

16 Scottish Government (2022) Free Personal and Nursing Care, Scotland, 2020-21

17 Scottish Government (2022) Extension of Free Personal Care to those under the age of 65, Scotland, 2020-21

18 Audit Scotland (2022) Social care briefing

19 Scottish Government (2021) Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland

20 Audit Scotland (2022) Social care briefing

21 Audit Scotland (2022) Social care briefing

22 Audit Scotland (2016) Social work in Scotland (audit-scotland.gov.uk)

23 Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2007) Free personal care in Scotland: recent developments | JRF