The Department of Health and Social Care is reforming adult social care policy, addressing issues including care home relocation decisions, ombudsman complaints, workforce capacity, and the transition of care responsibilities to local authorities. Current work focuses on improving redress mechanisms, data collection on care-experienced patients, and assessing the adequacy of the skilled social care workforce.
In response to: Adult social care priorities for local authorities
Sets out national priority outcomes, expectations and notional allocations for local authorities that deliver adult social care services.
Government response to the recommendations made by the Health and Social Care Committee (HSCC) in their report on adult social care and the cost of inaction.
In response to: Build Back Better: Our Plan for Health and Social Care
In response to: Accelerating reform in adult social care in England
Setting out the department's priorities for innovation and scaling in adult social care, including identifying, recognising and supporting unpaid carers.
The government’s formal response to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee report, ‘A “gloriously ordinary life”: spotlight on adult social care’.
A plan for adult social care system reform 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 financial years.
How the government is supporting the adult social care sector this winter.
In response to: People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform white paper
This white paper sets out a 10-year vision for adult social care and provides information on funded proposals that we will implement over the next 3 years.
This statement sets out the purpose and grant conditions for the Market Sustainability and Fair Cost of Care Fund for 2022 to 2023.
The government's ambitions for the sector and the challenges facing adult social care this winter.
White paper setting out legislative proposals for a Health and Care Bill.
The government's response to the Health and Social Care Committee's report ‘Social care: funding and workforce’.
The government's ambitions for the sector and the challenges facing adult social care this winter.
How the government will support the adult social care sector in England throughout the coronavirus outbreak.
Report based on a workshop commissioned by the Department of Health and held at the Social Care Institute for Excellence in January 2017.
We want carers to get the information, advice and support they need to stay healthy while they are caring for somebody else.
The government wants health and social care services to work together more efficiently so that people get the right combination of care.
Explains what is being done to tackle the root causes of the abuse and poor treatment of people at Winterbourne View.