Care market development strategy
Our care market development strategy for adult social care services sets out how we think adult social care services might change as people exercise more control over their own lives, including more use of direct payments.
It incudes.
- the current needs of our residents
- the potential future demand
- our vision for care and support services
You can download our most recent care market development strategy below.
Market position and sustainability plans
Local councils must carry out a 'fair cost of care' exercise with care providers across their local market. This is to give us a shared understanding of the local cost of providing care. We have published our findings below:
Thank you for your interest in working with us to support residents in our community. At this time (Summer, 2025), we have sufficient capacity within our domiciliary care market to meet current and anticipated needs. As such, we are not seeking to commission additional domiciliary care providers. We continue to monitor local demand and market capacity regularly. Should this position change in the future, we will update this notice and provide further information on how to express interest.
Market sustainability and fair cost of care
In carrying out this exercise we looked at lower, middle and upper ranges of costs in the local area for:
- care homes for those aged 65 years-old and over
- domiciliary care for those aged 18 years-old and over
Care homes for those aged 65 years-old and over included:
- standard residential care
- residential care for enhanced needs
- standard nursing care
- nursing care for enhanced needs
For more information, go to GOV.UK: Market sustainability and fair cost of care fund 2022 to 2023 guidance.