Market Position Statement

It has been prepared as part our duty under the Care Act to support and ensure the sufficiency of supply in the social care market.. It provides a needs, supply and demand assessment, both now and looking to the future and offers an assessment of the changes needed in the market to adapt to changing requirements, and highlights business opportunities. This information should help providers with shaping existing services and informing future investment decisions. The MPS should only be seen as an indication of future direction and forms just one element of the research that any provider would undertake to decide upon any future ventures.

The MPS sets out the strategic and financial context for Health and Social Care and links providers to useful information contained in Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and other trends in commissioning activity.

• Introduction
• Executive summary
• Strategic context
• Financial context
• Supporting Data (Power BI report)
• Summary of market opportunities

The Market Position Statement describes specific Commissioning Statements in relation to the following: 

• • Care homes
  • Extra care housing
  • Supported living
  • Regulated personal care
  • Supporting independence
  • Adult carers
  • Replacement care
  • Technology Enabled Care and Support (TECS)
  • Individual purchasing
  • Provider Engagement arrangements and equalities

We have adopted a modular approach to the MPS (see section guides below) and hope that this will help you to find the information you are looking for quickly. Our intention is that this is a live suite of documents which we will update as things change.

We are also be working with the Provider Engagement Network to continue to evolve each of the statements and to ensure that they reflect the insights and intelligence of the provider market.

If you have any suggestions about how the MPS could be improved in the future please email us at socialcarebusinessrelations-mailbox@devon.gov.uk