Adult Social Care Provider Engagement Network
Supporting adult social care providers in Somerset
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The Adult Social Care Provider Engagement Network allows Somerset Council to communicate and engage with local providers of adult social care services, ensuring key information, advice and guidance is more easily shared and obtained.
On this page you will find links to a range of content, including:
- Business continuity related guidance
- Adult social care commissioning activity, intentions and market position statement
- The work of our Quality Assurance and Contract Teams
- The work of our Sourcing Care function
- The work of key stakeholders, including the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the Registered Care Provider Association (RCPA), Listening and responding to care sector (LARCH +)
- Links to adult safeguarding information for care providers
We recognise the vital and valuable contribution of our local care market and hope the content of these pages supports a transparent and positive working relationship between the local authority and all those supporting people in our local communities.
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Your residential or nursing home may have received the Adult Social Care Survey (ASCS) in February 2025.
What is the ASCS?
The ASCS is an annual national survey that is sent to a sample of people who use services aged 18 and over and are in receipt of long-term support services funded or managed by social services following a full assessment of need. The ASCS asks 23 questions about people’s quality of life and how this is affected by care and support services. The survey was sent to 1,545 individuals who receive care or support in Somerset on 28th January 2025.
Why is it important?
Information about user’s experience of social care is important to help us understand the impact of our services, for enabling choice, and for helping us make our services better.
What do I need to do?
A reminder letter and additional survey will shortly be sent to those who have not responded. If one or more arrives at your nursing or residential home, we would hugely appreciate your support in asking the individual’s they are addressed to for their input.
The survey contains multiple-choice questions and won’t take longer than 10 minutes for them to complete. It also contains a freepost envelope, so you do not have to pay anything to send the results back to us.
We are very interested in the views of the people we support, so would be grateful if you could highlight the importance of completing the survey. The deadline for returning the survey to us via post is 31st March 2025.
Sign up for regular email briefings from Somerset’s Adult Social Care Provider Engagement Network.