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Scottish Community Care Statistics 2000

CHAPTER 7 - EXPENDITURE ON COMMUNITY CARE

Revenue Expenditure by Local Authorities

Tables 1 to 4 contain expenditure data reported by local authorities in annual local financial returns to the Scottish Executive. This information is published at summary level in the annual publication "Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics". All figures have been adjusted to current prices to remove the effects of inflation.

For definitions under which these data are collected, please refer to the notes in annex A.

Table 1 and chart 1 present net expenditure on social work services broken down by client group for the years between 1990 and 2000. The categories under which expenditure is recorded were changed between 1994 and 1995, and again between 1997 and 1998. It is therefore difficult to make comparisons, for some categories, over the full 1990 to 2000 period.

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It is apparent from Chart 1 that net expenditure on social work, as a whole, has steadily increased over the years to reach a level of approximately £1.2 billion in 1999/00. Expenditure on community care has increased at a similar rate to reach a level of approximately £769 million in 1999/00.

Net expenditure on community care accounted for 64 per cent of total social work compared to expenditure on children which accounted for 23 per cent and non-specific expenditure which accounted for 12 per cent of the total.

It is difficult to make comparisons between expenditure on client groups within community care because of the changes to the way in which data has been collected over the years. The introduction of the "all community care client groups" category in 1995 has led to an apparent drop in spending on older people and adults with mental health problems. This does not reflect a true reduction in service provision, but simply that this expenditure is being recorded elsewhere.

Table 7.1: Net expenditure on social work (£000s)^{1, 2}

	1989/90³	1990/91	1991/92	1992/93	1993/94	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00⁴
Children	139,742	159,057	171,921	182,608	208,450	229,670	234,698	242,381	243,665	263,276	278,296
All Community Care
Client Groups	-	-	-	-	-	225,026	253,495	291,842	234,313	257,915	246,863
Older People	256,450	271,543	270,752	278,809	312,825	199,291	215,289	195,552	262,567	269,999	302,662
Adults with Mental
Health Problems	2,001	2,553	5,352	10,425	16,944	26,540	33,657	37,573	31,677	30,780	29,462
Substance Misuse	3,378	3,725	3,718	4,829	6,062	10,652	11,757	10,014	8,506	7,245	8,159
Adults with Learning
Disabilities	58,064	66,380	70,251	75,427	92,047	94,985	116,452	115,959	122,126	118,419	137,809
Physically Disabled
Adults	37,772	42,558	47,342	55,388	49,879	53,615	57,597	57,449	44,684	44,945	42,154
Services for HIV/AIDS	673	837	1,135	1,121	1,307	1,767	1,752	1,287	1,368	1,404	1,729
Total Community Care	358,338	387,596	398,550	425,998	479,064	611,876	690,000	709,676	705,240	730,708	768,839
Adult Offenders	3,751	4,971	-1,512	1,548	2,903	2,230	3,989	5,266	3,078	4,913	3,808
Non Specific
Expenditure	180,905	211,033	206,763	216,713	228,878	203,831	223,423	199,265	191,315	162,423	149,436
Total Social Work	682,737	762,658	775,722	826,868	919,294	1,047,608	1,152,110	1,156,588	1,143,298	1,161,320	1,200,379

¹ Loan Charges have been excluded for all years.
² Figures have been adjusted to reflect current prices using GDP deflators.
³ In 1990 Expenditure does not include Support Services Costs.
⁴ 1999/00 figures are provisional and may change.

Source: SEDD Local Government Finance Statistics - LFR3 Return

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