Measuring and understanding social services outputs

Abstract

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) conducted a review led by Professor Sir Tony Atkinson on the future development of government output, productivity and associated price indices. One component of government output is social care. In order to feed into this review and with the longer-term objective of improving measurement and understanding of PSS output and productivity in social care, the Department of Health intends to develop new measures of personal social services (PSS) output and productivity, reflecting best available practice. This paper reports on an initial scoping and developmental exercise that was shared with the Atkinson Review Ream during its review