Scottish Government National Statistics detail home care services purchased or provided by Local Authorities for older and disabled people. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08. It is designated as official National Statistics.
Use Cases
- Analyzing local authority spending on home care services based on purchased or provided service data.
- Studying the scale and distribution of social care support for older people across Scotland.
- Evaluating public service provision for disabled individuals based on service delivery data.
Strengths
- Designated as official National Statistics by the Scottish Government, indicating a formal quality assurance process.
- Last updated on 2026-07-08, suggesting relatively recent data.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Scottish Government
- Collection Method
- Collected from Local Authorities.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:28.946148
- Geography
- Scotland