Department of Health, 11 November 2016
- This guidance is aimed at people who buy social care services, including local authority and CCG commissioners, as well as personal budget holders and people who fund their own care, care service providers and potential investors in the care sector.
- The adult social care market refers to independent care sector providers and support organisations – those that provide CQC regulated services, such as care and home care, as well as unregulated care, such as personal assistants, volunteers and communities and informal family carers, and wider support services.
- Contents
- Overview: adult social care market shaping
- Adult social care market roles and responsibilities
- Market demands and trends
- Quality ratings and characteristics of adult social care providers
- Datasets to support market intelligence
- Market development – guidance and resources
- Market oversight
- Contingency planning
- Resources for commissioners
- Workforce aspects of the care market
- Market shaping in practice – examples
- Five Year Forward View - NHS enhanced health in care home vanguards
- NHS quick guides: transforming care services in England
- Access to funding streams
