Adult Social Care Market Position Statement
Welcome to our new Market Position Statement (MPS).
Rather than publish this as a single document we have taken the decision from 2025 onwards to provide our MPS in the form of a microsite. Our intention in doing so is to enable information for different sections of the overall Adult Social Care market in Somerset to be updated independently of each other as and when they change, and at no less than a six-monthly interval, as well as providing links to key notices that are we are required to publish by the Public Procurement Act (2023) when they are published.
We want to continuously improve the information we provide to both care and support providers already operating in Somerset, and those who are interested in doing so. We have therefore created a short questionnaire to get feedback on the content of our MPS, that we would be grateful if care and support providers could complete to tell us what we have got right and what could be improved.
About Somerset
Population and population change
• Older Adults
• Working Age Adults
• Unpaid Carers
Our Working Together Board
Early Help and Prevention
• Keeping our communities informed
• Connect Somerset
• Social Prescribing
Open Mental Health
Personal Budgets and Direct Payments
Unpaid Carers
Somerset Independent Living Centres (SILCs)
Technology Enabled Care (TEC)
Somerset’s Care Markets and Services
Residential and Nursing Care Home Market
Home Care Market
Intermediate Care / Community Reablement
Extra Care Housing (ECH)
Specialist Care and Support Markets
• SASIS Residential Care
• SASIS Respite & Short Breaks
• SASIS Supported Living
• SASIS Domiciliary Care
• SASIS Day Opportunities & Outreach
• Register for SASIS
Shared Lives
Crisis Support
Trauma Informed Outreach and Engagement Service
Mental Health Step-down
Micro Provision Market
Community Equipment & Wheelchair Service