Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

Service records should be submitted for people who are either:
• funded fully or jointly by the local authority
• full cost clients whose care is organised by the local authority under S18(3)

In these groups, everyone currently in receipt of services should have a service event record submitted as part of CLD. This covers active or ongoing services that started before the reporting period as well as those starting or ending during the reporting period.

In relation to services that have been suspended during the period, these should be treated as open with the client 'on the books' for the purposes of the return. If it is decided that the suspended service will be terminated, for example following an extended stay in hospital where needs are likely to change, or the care home is unable to keep the bed available, this should be recorded as an ended service with an end date matching the suspension date and a new service recorded as appropriate.

Only services provided by adult social services in respect of needs as an adult should be included in reporting. Services for young people who have turned 18 whose service transitioned to adult social care before they turned 18 should be included. Services provided by children’s social services during the transition should be excluded.

Packages of care can be reported either using a single service line or as multiple service lines, depending on how the care is locally commissioned and recorded. This will be accounted for at the analysis stage.