Market Position Statement - summary

Introduction

Update February 2025: Please note that work to update our Market Position Statement is currently in progress.

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.

The MPS is fully online, enabling each sector to be updated as changes occur. 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.

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