Social enterprise has received the thumbs up from government in its vision for the future of adult social care.
Published in November 2010, 'A Vision for Adult Social Care: Capable Communities and Active Citizens’, sets a new agenda for adult social care in England.
Emphasis is on making services more personalised, preventative and focused on delivering the best results for people who use them.
Pointing to personal budgets as a catalyst for change, whereby people will be in charge of purchasing their own care, the government wants to see a more diverse range of organisations, including social enterprises, providing services.
Local authorities have been given responsibility for shaping and stimulating a social care market in which new service providers can do business.
As part of the market shaping process, councils and their NHS partners have been told to move away from using block contracts to commission services, to increase the use of personal budgets, including direct payments, and to support the growth of a market in services that people want.
Government is considering how to deal with barriers, in particular to social enterprise, that prevent a dynamic and varied market.
The purpose is to create an even playing field for providers, especially small set-ups that struggle with formal tendering processes, but can offer specialist and valuable solutions.
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