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 "title": "Adult social care: people in long-term support, England",
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 "summary": "People in long-term adult social care support in England at the end of each year since 2003-04, by age and by residential, nursing and community support, with the latest year's requests for support from new clients, from DHSC's adult social care activity report.",
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  "Clients of councils with adult social care responsibilities in long-term support at the end of each year, 31 March, as DHSC's Table 60 gives them: in residential and nursing care and in the community, by age. From 2023-24 the figures come from the client level data collection, before then from the returns that came before it, so DHSC's methodology annex says how far the years compare.",
  "DHSC rounds every figure to the nearest 5, and Table 60's totals are the sums of their rounded parts, without people in prisons: they differ a little from the year-end figures elsewhere in the report.",
  "The latest year's requests for support from new clients, short-term support to maximise independence, people supported during the year and reviews are DHSC's Table 2 figures for England, by age band (meta, table_2); DHSC gives no all-ages total in that table, and the hub adds none. The Isles of Scilly sent no data, and DHSC has not scaled England's figures for it."
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    "st-max, 65 and over": 245260.0,
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  "period": "2024/25",
  "note": "at 31 March; requests for support from new clients in the year: 665,350 aged 18 to 64 and 1,301,885 aged 65 and over"
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