The SALT data collection is a set of measures co-produced with stakeholders. It has two main sections, relating to requests for social care support and provision of short term support (described in the guidance as STS measures) and service users and carers receiving eligible support (described as LTS measures).

From April 2023 the government introduced a national mandatory person-level data collection – the Adult Social Care Client Level Data Set (CLD). CLD will replace the existing annual Short and Long Term (SALT) Support data collected by local authorities.

To provide continuity of published statistics about local authority adult social care services, and support improvement to the new CLD collection, local authorities will continue both CLD and SALT data returns in 2023 to 2024.