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Pausing the care home census
As part of our ongoing work to ensure our suite of social care publications meets user needs, we have decided to pause the care home census national data collection, analysis and publication.
The last publication of the census in its current format was on 28th October 2025.
This pause will enable us to:
- create capacity to concentrate resources on defining a care home minimum dataset
- focus on the wider programme of social care transformation work which aims to rationalise and improve the social care data landscape.
It is anticipated that much progress will be made over the next year on ways we can support better Care Home data provision into the future.
We will communicate our plans as the objectives of the Care Home Data Working Group are taken forward.