The Client Level Data (CLD) collection is the first national collection of adult social care records, covering requests for support, assessments, reviews and services provided or commissioned by councils as part of their duties under the Care Act 2014.
What is Client Level Data?
The Client Level Data (CLD) collection is the first national collection of social care records, covering requests for support, assessments, reviews and services provided or commissioned by councils as part of their duties under the Care Act 2014. It has been mandatory for councils with adult social services responsibilities to submit social care records to NHS England quarterly since April 2023. CLD has the potential to enable more frequent and detailed reporting about adult social care activity and service delivery. This will support improved benchmarking, care market oversight, service planning and commissioning.
The early outputs from CLD are being published as official statistics in development. Further CLD-based statistics will be published as the collection develops.
The latest publications can be found within:
LG Inform reports using the latest Client Level Data metrics
Insights from CLD, adults accessing long term support in adult social care: This report summarises the number of adults accessing long term adult social care support as a snapshot at the end of the period.
Insights from Client Level Data (CLD), Assessments: This report summarises the number of adults assessed by the local authority in the period, where the adults were not in receipt of long term support for the previous 12 months.
Useful links
For more information about the CLD data collection, see the Arden & GEM website.
The methodology for calculating the metrics in the local authority dashboards is explained in the Adult Social Care Client Data Dashboard.
You can also find links to the SQL code on GitHub.
Contact
If you have any questions or comments about the outputs on this page, please contact [email protected]
If you require any more information or guidance regarding submitting data or having access to the data, please email: [email protected]
For information regarding the wider remit of the CLD programme, please email: [email protected]
