The social care market is going to change in the coming years. Key trends include greater choice and control over service provision for users and carers, a stronger emphasis on communities and prevention, and changes in the basis of funding care. This paper looks at some assumptions that might be made about the social care market in the future and the potential issues and problems to be faced. The paper is based on discussions by participants in the National Market Development Forum between March and July 2010. The assumptions range from the almost inevitable, such as the growth in the numbers of older people, to the highly speculative, such as increased migration of older people. Key challenges that the social care market is likely to pose for commissioners and providers in the future are discussed. With these assumptions and challenges in mind, the paper suggests potential responses that will help to create an ‘ideal’ social care market. Key to the future will be the provision of accommodation into which care and health services can be delivered within the community, together with a combined preventative approach from health and social care.
The social care market is going to change in the coming years. Key trends include greater choice and control over service provision for users and carers, a stronger emphasis on communities and prevention, and changes in the basis of funding care. This paper looks at some assumptions that might be made about the social care market in the future and the potential issues and problems to be faced. The paper is based on discussions by participants in the National Market Development Forum between March and July 2010. The assumptions range from the almost inevitable, such as the growth in the numbers of older people, to the highly speculative, such as increased migration of older people. Key challenges that the social care market is likely to pose for commissioners and providers in the future are discussed. With these assumptions and challenges in mind, the paper suggests potential responses that will help to create an ‘ideal’ social care market. Key to the future will be the provision of accommodation into which care and health services can be delivered within the community, together with a combined preventative approach from health and social care.
Subject terms:
older people, social policy, social care, social care provision, adult social care, commissioning, financing;
The National Market Development Forum (NMDF) is a short life group established in 2010 comprising commissioners and providers from across the public, private and voluntary sectors. Its purpose is to explore some of the challenges of market development in adult social care in the context of personalisation, and to propose practical ways in which partners can work together to address them in the future. The NMDF has been funded as part of the Putting People First Delivery Programme. Based on discussions at its meetings, the Forum has produced a series of discussion papers designed to explore key challenges and develop approaches to improve the social care market. These papers argue that, in the context of Putting People First, market development in adult social care demands a fundamental change in the way commissioners, providers and people using services interact with each other. This publication provides the following five papers produced by the NMDF: The Future Social Care Market; Developing Market Intelligence; How Will 'Personalisation' Change The Way Services Are Procured?; The Implications of Personalisation for Social Care Tendering ; and Building Constructive Market Relations.
The National Market Development Forum (NMDF) is a short life group established in 2010 comprising commissioners and providers from across the public, private and voluntary sectors. Its purpose is to explore some of the challenges of market development in adult social care in the context of personalisation, and to propose practical ways in which partners can work together to address them in the future. The NMDF has been funded as part of the Putting People First Delivery Programme. Based on discussions at its meetings, the Forum has produced a series of discussion papers designed to explore key challenges and develop approaches to improve the social care market. These papers argue that, in the context of Putting People First, market development in adult social care demands a fundamental change in the way commissioners, providers and people using services interact with each other. This publication provides the following five papers produced by the NMDF: The Future Social Care Market; Developing Market Intelligence; How Will 'Personalisation' Change The Way Services Are Procured?; The Implications of Personalisation for Social Care Tendering ; and Building Constructive Market Relations.
Subject terms:
local authorities, older people, personal budgets, personalisation, social care provision, tendering, adult social care, commissioning, contract procedures, government policy, market development;