Social Care User Surveys (ASCS and SACE Data Collections)

Survey of Adult Carers in England (SACE)

Learn more or read the social care carer survey guidance 2018 -2019

Adult Social Care Survey (ASCS)

Learn more or read the social care user survey guidance 2018- 2019

Learn more or read the social care user survey guidance 2017 -2018

The adult social care survey asks people who are over 18 and who use adult social care about their experiences. We run this questionnaire every year. The questionnaire looks at how these services are helping people to live safely and independently in their own homes.

To provide assured, consistent and comparable local data on care outcomes. It is the most significant pool of personal outcome information for people receiving adult social care.

• To support transparency and accountability, enabling people to make better choices about their care.
• To help local services identify areas where outcomes can be improved in a very challenging financial climate, and support their own initiatives with an assured vehicle for obtaining outcome information.
• To populate outcome measures in the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework.

ASCOT (Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit) is the source for questions 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a, 9a and 11 in the Adult Social Care Survey, ASCOT is designed to capture information about an individual's social care-related quality of life (SCRQoL). ASCOT is owned by the University of Kent and permission is granted for the sole purpose of this ASCS survey, any other use would be considered as a breach of copyright. Users wishing to make any other use of the ASCOT materials should contact the ASCOT team. For further information, please visit the ASCOT website.

Social Services User Survey Group (SSUSG) oversees our programme of user experience surveys