Author: Simon Bottery & Saorise Mallorie
Resource Type: Report
Categories: Personalised care and support planning, Adult Social Care
Publishing body: The Kings Fund
The key trends in adult social care in England outlined in this report are:
- Requests: More people, particularly working-age adults, are requesting support
- Receipt of care: The number of people receiving long-term care has fallen again
- Eligibility: Financial eligibility is tighter and reform has been put back
- Spending: Total expenditure has increased due to the Covid-19 pandemic and is now higher than in 2010/11
- Costs: Local authorities are paying more for care home places and home care.
- Capacity: The total number of care home places has declined slightly
- Vacancies: The staff vacancy rate is the highest since records began
- Pay: Care-worker pay continues to rise but struggles to compete with other sectors
- Carers: Fewer unpaid carers now receive paid support and respite care has also fallen
- Quality: Quality is largely stable but fewer ratings were published during Covid-19
- Personalisation: Fewer people receive direct payments
- Satisfaction: Satisfaction of people using services is edging downward
