Quarterly Community Care Statistics for Scotland

Quarterly statistics on care services in Scotland, including care homes, home care, rapid response, and personal care payments. The data is produced by the Scottish Government and designated as Official Statistics. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Monitor trends in care home occupancy and capacity based on quarterly returns.
• Analyze the uptake and cost of free personal and nursing care services.
• Track the provision and utilization of home care and rapid response services over time.
• Evaluate the distribution and impact of direct payments to service users.

Strengths

• Data is designated as Official Statistics by the Scottish Government.
• Provides quarterly temporal granularity for monitoring trends.
• Released under the OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Scottish Government

Collection Method

Quarterly monitoring returns from care service providers.

Time Range

Quarterly coverage.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:16.584999.

Geography

Scotland