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Conwy: social care spending
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£119m for Conwy in 2024-25, £1,041 per resident, +7.6% on a year earlier after inflation. In 2024-25, 45.8% of its adult social care spending went on care homes and 18.1% on home care (Wales: 37.4% and 19.6%).
Figure as of 16 October 2025. Source: Welsh Government.
Key figures
- £119m2024-25, cash +12.1% on a year earlier
- £1,041Per resident, 2024-25
- £1,041Social services spending per resident, Wales, 2024-25 Wales: £947
Source: Welsh Government.
Over time: cash, real terms and per resident
Per resident divides by ONS mid-year population estimates.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Per resident, 2025-26 prices | Per resident, cash |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £956 | £844 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £998 | £928 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £1,077 | £1,041 |
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Figure as of 16 October 2025. Source: Welsh Government.
Source: Welsh Government, Local authority revenue outturn expenditure and financing (StatsWales), published 16 October 2025.
Where it sits, and what is below it
- UK total
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- Department or service body
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Conwy
Net current expenditure on social services from the council’s revenue outturn, before specific grants (Wales does not publish them by service).
£119m in 2024-25 (cash); £123m in 2025-26 prices; £1,041 per resident; +12.1% on a year earlier in cash, +7.6% in real terms.
| Spending category | Cash, 2024-25 | Real terms (2025-26 prices) | Per resident | Real change on a year earlier | Source | Below this |
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Adult social careDetails for Adult social care | £85m | £88m | — | +8.3% | Welsh Government | Broken down below |
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Children’s social careDetails for Children’s social care | £34m | £35m | — | +6.0% | Welsh Government | Broken down below |
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Adult social care
£85m in 2024-25 (cash); £88m in 2025-26 prices; +12.7% on a year earlier in cash, +8.3% in real terms.
| Line or transaction | Cash, 2024-25 | Real terms (2025-26 prices) | Per resident | Real change on a year earlier | Source | Below this |
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Residential care home placementsDetails for Residential care home placements | £27m | £28m | — | −9.7% | Welsh Government | |
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Home careDetails for Home care | £15m | £16m | — | +112.2% | Welsh Government | |
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Nursing home placementsDetails for Nursing home placements | £12m | £13m | — | +20.0% | Welsh Government | |
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Supported and other accommodationDetails for Supported and other accommodation | £12m | £12m | — | +0.8% | Welsh Government | |
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Assessment and care managementDetails for Assessment and care management | £8m | £8m | — | +1.0% | Welsh Government | |
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Direct paymentsDetails for Direct payments | £5m | £6m | — | −1.8% | Welsh Government | |
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Day careDetails for Day care | £3m | £3m | — | −20.6% | Welsh Government | |
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Not assigned to a client group and setting in the returnDetails for Not assigned to a client group and setting in the return | £2m | £2m | — | +144.9% | Welsh Government | |
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Other servicesDetails for Other services | £1m | £1m | — | −68.0% | Welsh Government | |
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Equipment and adaptationsDetails for Equipment and adaptations | £1m | £1m | — | −4.0% | Welsh Government | |
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Children’s social care
£34m in 2024-25 (cash); £35m in 2025-26 prices; +10.5% on a year earlier in cash, +6.0% in real terms.
| Line or transaction | Cash, 2024-25 | Real terms (2025-26 prices) | Per resident | Real change on a year earlier | Source | Below this |
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Children looked afterDetails for Children looked after | £24m | £25m | — | +15.0% | Welsh Government | |
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Children’s centres and early yearsDetails for Children’s centres and early years | £5m | £5m | — | +57.2% | Welsh Government | |
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Safeguarding and social workDetails for Safeguarding and social work | £3m | £3m | — | −24.1% | Welsh Government | |
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Family supportDetails for Family support | £1m | £1m | — | −58.9% | Welsh Government | |
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Youth justiceDetails for Youth justice | £1m | £1m | — | +0.3% | Welsh Government | |
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Services for young peopleDetails for Services for young people | £0m | £0m | — | +70.7% | Welsh Government | |
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Other children’s and families’ servicesDetails for Other children’s and families’ services | not published | not published | — | — | Welsh Government | |
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Cash is as published. Real terms are in 2025-26 prices, using HM Treasury’s GDP deflator. Per resident divides by ONS mid-year population for the area the body serves. Changes compare the same body in consecutive years.
What is recorded alongside the money
These figures are published beside the funding, not as its result. Demand, geography, recording practice and many other things differ between areas and change over time; none of these charts shows cause and effect.
| Measure | Conwy | Wales | Period |
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Social services spending per resident, WalesDetails for Social services spending per resident, Wales | £1,041 | £947 | 2024-25 |
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Share of adult social care spending on care homes, WalesDetails for Share of adult social care spending on care homes, Wales | 45.8% | 37.4% | 2024-25 |
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Share of adult social care spending on home care, WalesDetails for Share of adult social care spending on home care, Wales | 18.1% | 19.6% | 2024-25 |
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Net current expenditure on adult and children’s social services per resident, from the revenue outturn, Wales. Unitary councils.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Conwy | Wales |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £844 | £831 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £928 | £897 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £1,041 | £947 |
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Figure as of 16 October 2025. Source: Welsh Government.
What these figures do and don't show
- Nations are never added up or ranked. England’s adult figures are gross spending from the adult social care finance return, its children’s figures gross spending from the section 251 return; Wales publishes net spending before specific grants and Scotland net spending after all grants. Each nation is compared only with itself.
- Gross includes money that is not the council’s own. England’s adult social care spending includes what people pay towards their care and what the NHS contributes (the Better Care Fund); the table of where the money comes from shows each.
- Care homes against care at home is a split of long-term care spending in England; short-term care, assessment and commissioning are outside it. Wales’s split is of all adult spending, so the two shares are not the same measure.
- Self-funders are not here. People who arrange and pay for their own care home place or home care are outside these returns, so care home spending here is councils’ spending, not the size of the market.
- Cost per looked-after child divides a year’s spending by the children in care on one day; the spending also covers care leavers and adoption support.
- Nothing here shows cause and effect. Spending, people supported, children in care and staff are shown side by side; need, local prices and how councils record spending all differ.
- Northern Ireland runs social care through its Health and Social Care Trusts, which do not publish it by trust in a common table, so it appears at nation level only.
Where this sits: United Kingdom → Wales → Social services: councils in Wales → Conwy. Figures from data/services/social-care.json, generated 29 September 2026.
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| Source | Publisher | Figures as of | Updated | Licence |
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| Local authority revenue outturn expenditure and financing (StatsWales) | Welsh Government | 16 October 2025 | annual | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
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Real terms use HM Treasury’s GDP deflator, 2025-26 prices. Breaks in the series: 2020-21: Covid-19: extra grants such as the Infection Control Fund raised spending in 2020-21 and 2021-22. 2011-12: PESA 2011 counted some personal social services under unemployment; later editions count none there, so the UK split by purpose shifts slightly before 2011-12.
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Details for 2022-23
Details for 2023-24
Details for 2024-25
Figure as of 16 October 2025. Source: Welsh Government.