Community Care Statistics: Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care for Adults

The Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care Project (RAP) was developed to provide a coherent set of National Statistics on adult community care. Community care is the process by which requests for social care help made to Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) are translated, via assessment and care planning into appropriate services. Most of the information presented has been collected since 2000-01. Some of the waiting times data was collected for the first time in 2004-05, information around carers in 2005-06 and the age split of clients receiving services by ethnicity in 2006-07.