Social Services

(asked on 21st May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions care home providers have handed back contracts to provide social care to local authorities in each year since 2009-10.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 24th May 2018

We do not collect data about local contracting.

Commissioning high quality social care is the responsibility of local government who are best placed to understand the needs of local people and communities, and how best to meet them.

Where a care provider ‘hands back’ a contract to a local authority, the authority remains responsible for meeting the needs of people who previously had services provided under the contract and for arranging replacement services.

The Department has worked with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Local Government Association, the care sector and other partners to produce a wide range of guidance and support about market shaping and commissioning and contingency planning. All guidance related to market shaping and commissioning responsibilities is collected on a markets Hub available on GOV.UK.

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