These documents set out:
- what we know
- what we believe will be needed in the future
Setting out our priorities and intentions in this way helps providers to better plan their businesses with confidence and meet customer expectations. They give information on market needs and opportunities and are intended to prompt discussion and proposals for meeting the identified needs.
Adult Social Care Market Position Statement
Download our Adult Social Care Market Position Statement
- Housing and Homelessness Strategy
- Strategic Housing Market Assessment
- Local Plan
- Private Sector Housing Renewal Policy
Fair cost of care and market sustainability
As part of the government’s adult social care reform agenda, councils were required to complete a ‘fair cost of care’ exercise by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). This involved working with adult social care providers to determine the local cost of providing care.
Councils must also publish a Market Sustainability Plan, showing how they will support local providers over the next three years.
This included the following types of services:
- care homes for people aged 65 and over (standard residential care, residential care for enhanced needs and nursing care)
- home care for people aged 18 and over
‘Fair’ means the average actual operating costs for providing care in the local area. ‘Fair’ also means what is sustainable for local providers and what the council can afford to pay.
Funding
We received £91,600 of DHSC funding for the year 2022 to 2023 and £227,000 for 2023 to 2024. This was used to complete the work and support improvements needed locally. The reports for our Cost of Care Exercise for care homes and for home care show how we worked with providers, how costs were calculated and the results. These reports were submitted to the DHSC in October 2022.
We have also written a Market Sustainability Plan setting out the state of our market in Rutland and how we will support it in the future.