Market Sustainability Report 2023

This report sets out in detail the dire situation providers of adult social care face whether they be a building-based organisation or one which operates from an office into the community – for example home care. The situation is not a new one --- for many years we have, as a Care Association, been reporting the increasingly desperate circumstances ASC providers have found themselves in.

Both local and central government acknowledge provider organisations are not funded appropriately but the necessary actions to increase that funding to create a sustainable care market place have not followed.  The situation we now find ourselves is extremely perilous.  Urgent, sustainable funding is required to ensure that providers are able to continue to provide the services that are so needed. 

We recommend you use this report as evidential support for all your funding negotiations with commissioners in both the care and health sector. We will be challenging those same commissioners, as well as the elected members who lead on care matters in the local authority and local Members of Parliament to take account of this report and increase the available funding to adult social care to create a sustainable care market place.

We support and fully endorse the content and recommendations in this report.