Sutton’s Market Sustainability Plan

Find out what we're doing to ensure our care services are diverse, sustainable and high quality.

Promoting an efficient and effective market

Under The Care Act 2014, local authorities have a duty to promote the efficient and effective operation of a market in services for meeting care and support needs, with a view to ensuring services are diverse, sustainable and high quality for the local population, including those who pay for their own care. 

The London Borough of Sutton must assess and demonstrate how we'll ensure our care markets, in relation to 65-plus care home services and for 18-plus domiciliary care services, are sustainable, as we move towards implementing reform.

Purpose of the Market Sustainability Plan

The plan will assess the impact current fee rates are having on the market and the potential future risks, particularly in the context of adult social care reform.

This assessment will enable us to inform the development of mitigating actions, including how much we might need to increase fee rates over the 3 year spending review period.

Our Market Sustainability Plan should also complement other strategic documents, such as our Market Position Statement.

And it should demonstrate how we've worked with providers to develop the plan.

We're working closely with providers so we can prepare the market for reform and develop a shared understanding of evidence around the local costs of care to better understand where fee rates may need to increase.

Read our Market Sustainability Plan

Read Sutton's Market Sustainability Plan

Contact us

If you have questions about our Market Sustainability Plan, email asc.providercomms@sutton.gov.uk.