GovWire

The government is committed to the 10-year vision for adult social care set out in the People at the Heart of Care white paper.

This Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care plan sets out how we are building on our progress over the last year to make sure care is of outstanding quality, personalised and accessible. It details how 700 million will be spent to continue our transformation of the adult social care system in England, including investment in:

• improved access to care and support
• recognising skills for careers in care
• driving digitisation and technology adoption
• data and local authority oversight
• support to enable people to remain independent at home
• encouraging innovation and improvement
• joining up services to support people and carers

Together, these measures aim to put people at the heart of social care and take us on our next step towards our 10-year reform vision.

Alongside this plan we have also:

• launched the call for evidence for the care workforce pathway
• published the Better Care Fund policy framework 2023 to 2025
• published guidance and conditions for the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund (MSIF)
• provided 27 million to local authorities through a grant to streamline local authority adult social care assessment processes
• launched an expression of interest for year 2 funding of the Adult Social Care Technology Fund