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Social care key terms
Please see the Adult Social Care collections Data Dictionary which holds a glossary and definitions of social care key terms.
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-collections/social-care-collection-materials-2021#asc-data-dictionary