Adult Social Care Outcome Framework

The Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF) measures how well care and support services achieve the outcomes that matter most to people. The ASCOF is used both locally and nationally to set priorities for care and support, measure progress and strengthen transparency and accountability.

Initial package set up

Run the following command to set up your environment correctly from the root directory

python -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

If, while developing this package, you change the installed packages, please update the environment file using

pip list --format=freeze > requirements.txt

VSCode specific setup

For Visual Studio Code it is necessary that you change your default interpreter to be the virtual environment you just created .venv. To do this use the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-P, search for Python: Select interpreter and select .venv from the list.

Git Hook Setup

Please running the following command to setup the Git Hooks.

python .\scripts\setup-hooks.py

You will now be prompted when committing to add a JIRA ticket number to your commit message.

Please do not use the VS Code Git Tab to commit as this will no longer work.

However, you can use it for adding files to be committed.

Running the code

Please check that the settings, including the path to the input files, are correct in ascof/params.py.

You can then create the publication (from the base directory) using

python -m ascof.create_ascof

Important things to know

Link to the publication

Report: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-outcomes-framework-ascof

Authors

Liz Selfridge, Luke Atkinson, Tomide Adeyeye

Repo Owner Contact Details: socialcare.statistics@nhs.net

Licence

The Personal Social Services Adult Social Care Overview publication codebase is released under the MIT License. The documentation is © Crown copyright and available under the terms of the Open Government 3.0 licence.