Social Services: Closures
Commons · Question 32449 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the financial reasons for care providers closing.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 3 Mar 2025
Adult social care services are provided through a largely outsourced market of commercial organisations and charities. Local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the care needs of their populations, and to develop and build local market ...