Written questions

Social Services: Audit

Commons · Question 33252 · Tabled 24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 3 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Julia Buckley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure local authorities complete timely financial audits of social care providers.

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 ...