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Community Care Statistics 2002: Home help/ home care services for adults, England
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Last modified date:8 February 2007
National Statistics on home care services purchased or provided by Local Authorities in England, for a survey week in September 2002 were published in a Statistical Press Notice. Further information at the local level is presented here.
Main findings
During the survey week in September 2002
- An estimated 2.98 million contact hours were provided to around 366,800 households (or 381,900 clients). Compared with 2001 this represents an increase in the number of contact hours of 3 per cent and a fall in the number of households receiving home care of 4%. This suggests that Councils are providing more intensive services for a smaller number of service users, continuing the trend seen over the last 10 years.
- Around 81,500 households (22% of households) received intensive home care in 2002 (defined as more than 10 contact hours and 6 or more visits during the week). This represents a 5% increase from the 2001 figure of 77,400.
- Around 41% of households who received home care received 6 or more visits and more than 5 hours of care. In 2001, around 39% of households receiving care had 6 or more visits and over 5 hours care.
- 19% of households receiving care had only a single visit during the week compared with 20% in 2001. In the vast majority of cases the visit lasted 2 hours or less.
- 64% of the total contact hours of home care were provided by the independent sector to 216,200 households. This compares with 60% of contact hours and 205,800 households in 2001. This reflects the increase of the commissioning of home care by Councils from the independent sector.
- Around 17,600 households were receiving home care from both the CSSR directly and the independent sector, a 10% decrease from the 2001 figure of 19,600.
Between September 1997 and September 2002
- The number of contact hours provided has increased by 14% while the number of households receiving services has decreased by 23%.
- The proportion of contact hours provided by the independent sector has increased from 42% to 64%.
- The number of households receiving home care from the independent sector has increased by 50%. In 2002, 216,200 households received care from the independent sector compared to 144,000 in 1997.
- In 2002, the average number of contact hours per household was 8.1 hours. This is almost 1.5 times the average number of contact hours provided in 1997 (5.4 hours). More than half of households received 6 or more visits during the week in 2002, compared with 38% in 1997. In 2002 41% of all households had 6 or more visits and over 5 contact hours of home care, an increase from 28% in 1997. The proportion of households receiving home care and only one visit of 2 hours or less in duration has decreased from 27% in 1997 to 17% in 2002.
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