Historic statutory returns detail referral routes for new contacts to adult social care services. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 and cover the 2014/15 period, based on discontinued RAP return definitions. The data originates from the London Borough of Barnet.
Use Cases
- Analyze the distribution of referral routes to understand primary sources of new adult social care contacts.
- Examine the count of referrals handled solely at the point of contact to assess service efficiency.
- Track changes in referral patterns using the 2014/15 figures as a historical baseline for discontinued RAP return definitions.
- Investigate the impact of data rounding on aggregate totals for referral route statistics.
Strengths
- Data is derived from official statutory returns, providing an administrative record.
- Figures are specifically rounded to the nearest 5, a documented and consistent data processing step.
- Includes a defined time period (2014/15) for temporal context.
Limitations
- The 2014/15 data is based on discontinued RAP return definitions and is not fully validated, potentially affecting comparability.
- Figures may not sum due to rounding, which can introduce inaccuracies in aggregated totals.
- The dataset's temporal coverage is limited to a single historic year (2014/15).
Provenance
- Source
- London Borough of Barnet
- Collection Method
- Historic statutory returns (RAP returns).
- Time Range
- 2014/15
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- London Borough of Barnet, United Kingdom