This year’s Social care 360 includes data from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021, encompassing both the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic. Several of the trends show marked changes from previous years. One of these is clearly related to the pandemic. Public expenditure on social care increased sharply, as the government channelled money into the sector to help fund the additional costs of Covid-19. In others, Covid-19 is likely to have been involved but other factors might also have played a role. New requests for support from older people to local authorities went down, most likely as people avoided contact with formal care services, but requests for support from working-age adults increased. Overall, the number receiving formal long-term care services in fact went up. [Summary]