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Community Care

Volume 498: debated on Tuesday 27 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adults in each age band received support under section 47 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009. (295858)

The information is contained in the following table.

The total number of clients aged 18 and over in receipt of local authority funded community based services, by age band, as at 31 March.

Rounded

Community based services

At 31 March

Age 18 to 64

Age 65 to 74

Age 75 and over

Total

20071

376,300

131,700

514,800

1,022,900

2008

395,000

139,100

522,300

1,056,300

20092

401,400

135,800

509,900

1,047,100

1 In 2007 “overnight respite—client’s home” was included within community based services provided to clients, from 2008 all respite care is now recorded as a service for carers rather than clients and is therefore not included in this data.

2 Data for 2008-09 are provisional.

Source:

Referral, Assessments and Packages of Care form P2s