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Guidance: Adult social care outcomes framework: handbook of definitions

Department Of Health

December 19
11:00 2024

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The adult social care outcomes framework (ASCOF) measures how well care and support services achieve the outcomes that matter most to people.

The ASCOF handbook of definitions sets out the technical detail of each measure, with examples to minimise confusion and inconsistency in reporting and interpretation.

Updates to this page

Published 18 July 2017
Last updated 19 December 2024 +show all updates
  1. Updated the adult social care outcomes framework handbook of definitions, partly to reflect the data source changes from SALT to CLD, and also removed all previous versions of the handbook.

  2. Added the adult social care outcomes framework 2023 to 2024: handbook of definitions. Removed the draft handbook.

  3. Adult social care outcomes framework 2023 to 2024: draft handbook of definitions added to page

  4. Added updated handbook for 2018 to 2019.

  5. Added 2017/18 handbook of definitions.

  6. First published.

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