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An interpretation of the powers and duties conferred by law on councils and other bodies to deliver services. A 'duty' is something that a council must do. A 'power' gives a council the right to do something.

Enables person-centred, sustainable innovation for adult social care by specifying a client level, core data set to capture adult social care activity across England.

Local government is responsible for a range of vital services for people and businesses in defined areas. Among them are well known functions such as social care, schools, housing and planning and waste collection, but also lesser known ones such as licensing, business support, registrar services and pest control.

Subset of LGA Circumstances.

Types of organisation that deliver services and on whom legal powers and duties are conferred

The Needs list identifies the personal requirements of a citizen that can be fulfilled within the bounds of public sector service delivery whereby a course of action might support a positive change in circumstances. Use - By identifying “Need” it is possible to group services and delivery agents together in order to resolve issues, problems and concerns raised by the citizen in a particular demographic target group. It uses unique numeric identifiers for each “Need” irrespective of the language and naming conventions that are used by different people and organisations to identify or describe a Need.

Types of geographical area governed by public sector or resident representative bodies and types of time period which describe the temporal coverage of metric values.

Subset of LGA Services used within the Digitising Social Care Project

The 2020-21 Safeguarding Adults Collection (SAC) records details about safeguarding activity for adults aged 18 and over in England

The SALT data collection is a set of measures relating to requests for social care support and provision of short term support and service users and carers receiving eligible support