Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that local authority care providers deliver the best possible levels of care for elderly people.

Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities have a duty to shape the care provider market to deliver a diverse range of high quality, person-centred care and support services.

The white paper ‘People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform’ set out how we will work with the Care Quality Commission to introduce a new assurance framework to assess local authorities’ delivery of adult social care duties under the Care Act.