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Glasgow City: social care spending
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£609m for Glasgow City in 2024-25, £937 per resident, +2.2% on a year earlier after inflation. Most of its adult social care money is paid to the Integration Joint Board, which runs care with the NHS.
Figure as of 3 February 2026. Source: Scottish Government.
Key figures
- £609m2024-25, cash +6.4% on a year earlier
- £937Per resident, 2024-25
- £937Social work spending per resident, Scotland, 2024-25 Scotland: £879
- 1,722 childrenChildren looked after (Scotland), 2025 Scotland: 11,824 children
- 155 per 10,000 childrenChildren looked after per 10,000 children (Scotland), 2025 Scotland: 116 per 10,000 children
Source: Scottish 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 | £997 | £880 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £963 | £895 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £969 | £937 |
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Figure as of 3 February 2026. Source: Scottish Government.
Source: Scottish Government, Scottish Local Government Finance Statistics, published 3 February 2026.
Where it sits, and what is below it
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Glasgow City
Net revenue expenditure on social work from the council’s local finance return, net of all grants and income. Most adult social care is paid over to the Integration Joint Board, which runs it with the NHS.
£609m in 2024-25 (cash); £630m in 2025-26 prices; £937 per resident; +6.4% on a year earlier in cash, +2.2% 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 care, including the payment to the Integration Joint BoardDetails for Adult social care, including the payment to the Integration Joint Board | £597m | £618m | — | +2.4% | Scottish Government | Broken down below |
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Children’s social careDetails for Children’s social care | £12m | £13m | — | −4.7% | Scottish Government | Line or transaction not published: The Scottish returns publish children’s social work as one line for each council; the split by service is in Scotland’s own social work statistics, which do not report spending. |
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Adult social care, including the payment to the Integration Joint Board
£597m in 2024-25 (cash); £618m in 2025-26 prices; +6.5% on a year earlier in cash, +2.4% 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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Paid to the Integration Joint BoardDetails for Paid to the Integration Joint Board | £572m | £591m | — | +4.2% | Scottish Government | |
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Adult social care run by the council directlyDetails for Adult social care run by the council directly | £22m | £23m | — | −20.3% | Scottish Government | |
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Criminal justice social workDetails for Criminal justice social work | £4m | £4m | — | −51.5% | Scottish Government | |
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Other adult servicesDetails for Other adult services | £0m | £0m | — | −33.8% | Scottish 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 | Glasgow City | Scotland | Period |
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Social work spending per resident, ScotlandDetails for Social work spending per resident, Scotland | £937 | £879 | 2024-25 |
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Net revenue expenditure on social work (adults, including the payment to the Integration Joint Board, and children) per resident, Scotland. Unitary councils.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Glasgow City | Scotland |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £880 | £788 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £895 | £836 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £937 | £879 |
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Figure as of 3 February 2026. Source: Scottish 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 → Scotland → Social work: councils in Scotland → Glasgow City. Figures from data/services/social-care.json, generated 29 September 2026.
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Sources for this page
| Source | Publisher | Figures as of | Updated | Licence |
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| Scottish Local Government Finance Statistics | Scottish Government | 3 February 2026 | annual | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Children’s social work statistics: looked after children 2024-25, additional tables (table 22) | Scottish Government | 28 April 2026 | 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: 2016-17: Scotland: most adult social care money has been paid to the Integration Joint Boards since April 2016, so council returns show one payment line instead of services. 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.
The numbers behind this chart
Details for 2022-23
Details for 2023-24
Details for 2024-25
Figure as of 3 February 2026. Source: Scottish Government.