Market Position Statement
Our Market Position Statement is undergoing a full refresh throughout spring and summer 2025. The version available below has undergone the first stage of the refresh, and further detail will be added in the summer following engagement with our providers.
Vibrant markets for happy and healthy lives
The Care Act 2014 sets out the law around market development in adult social care. Section 5 sets out duties on local authorities to facilitate a diverse, sustainable high quality market for their whole local population, including those who pay for their own care, and to promote efficient and effective operation of the adult care and support market as a whole.
Our Market Position Statement sets out our vision for care and support services within Devon.
Each market sector section offers an assessment of need, both now and into the future, supported by a Power BI ‘dashboard’, which enables analysis of demand and supply in some markets at local level.
Promoting independence is the cross-cutting theme which runs through all the commissioning statements and reflects our Adult Social Care vision and strategies.
We want to maximise the potential for independence when providing care and support to each person for whom we commission or provide a service.
We expect to commission services which will support people to achieve their eligible outcomes as agreed with them; which are time-limited unless there is an enduring need; and which focus on recovery, reablement and the maintenance of health and wellbeing.
Further information about how we engage with providers: