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Guidance: Adult social care: market shaping

Department Of Health

October 7
15:19 2024

This information is aimed at:

  • people who buy social care services
  • local authority and clinical commissioning group commissioners
  • personal budget holders
  • people who fund their own care
  • care service providers
  • potential investors in the care sector

The adult social care market refers to independent care sector providers and support organisations that provide Care Quality Commission regulated services.

This includes care and home care as well as unregulated care, such as:

  • personal assistants
  • volunteers
  • communities and informal family carers
  • wider support services

Updates to this page

Published 11 November 2016
Last updated 7 October 2024 +show all updates
  1. Updated the 'Workforce aspects of the care market' section to include the latest links.

  2. Added link to 'Working with care providers to understand costs' in 'Resources for commissioners' section.

  3. First published.

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