Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

A review event should be an examination of an existing care and support plan. This may be planned as a regular event or initiated by a change in circumstance.
Where it is found that there is a change of circumstance that affects a care and support plan, this may trigger a re-assessment of needs, carer’s assessment, short term assessment and/or financial assessment. These should be recorded as separate assessment events in addition to the review event.

Where a review and re-assessment is recorded on case management systems as a single combined event, this should be submitted as a review.

A review cannot be completed without input from the client and/or their representative. The outcome must include offering of new or continuation of current services as well as services being ceased. Closing case files or checking that services have stopped following the death of a client does not count as a review for CLD purposes. Similarly, reviews that are not completed before a client dies (or for any other reason) should not be included.

SALT reviews (LTS002b) are limited to reviews of those who are in receipt of long-term support. All reviews of client and/or carer needs should be recorded as review events in CLD. This covers people receiving long-term support (LTS002), those receiving short-term services (STS002) and unpaid carers (LTS003). Inclusion of all reviews in CLD will allow existing metrics to be derived, as well as collecting additional new insight on local authority adult social care activity.

Review events should only be submitted if they are completed. Reviews that are terminated before completion should not be submitted. For example, closing case files following the death of a client does not count as a review for CLD purposes.