Assessing social care market and provider sustainability: part B: toolkit

Author:
CORDIS BRIGHT
Publisher:
Cordis Bright
Publication year:
2015
Pagination:
21
Place of publication:
London

Provides a framework to help local authorities implement a test of care market sustainability, and offers insights about when a provider requires further monitoring. Many local authorities have developed highly effective systems for gathering local market intelligence in relation to the part of the market with which they contract for services. This intelligence may be gathered both formally and informally and involve a broad range of approaches. This toolkit is designed to complement such approaches by providing a clear structure for local authorities to consider the totality of the local market, only a proportion of which they will directly contract with. There are five phases to the application of the toolkit: determining local market segmentation; evaluation of external indicators; evaluation of sub market composition indicators; forming a judgement on sustainability and deciding which ‘hard to replace’ providers to monitor; and understanding and monitoring the sustainability of ’hard to replace’ providers. (Edited publisher abstract)

Subject terms:
social care provision, care providers, local authorities, markets, risk management, assessment, financial management, economic evaluation;
Content type:
practice guidance
Location(s):
England
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