Our new local authority assessments allow us to provide independent assurance to people of their quality of care in their area.
We are assessing how local authorities meet their duties under Part 1 of the Care Act (2014).
Assessment reports
Our reports, starting with the most recently published:
Assessments in progress
Our assessment process for local authorities begins with an information return request. This is a key part of our assessment of how a local authority is carrying out its adult social care functions in England.
At the start of the assessment process we send an email notification to the director of adult social services at the local authorities where we will be starting assessments.
View the local authorities we have contacted to start assessment activity
- Barnsley
- Bedford Borough Council
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Bolton
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Bromley
- Bury
- Central Bedfordshire
- City of London
- Cornwall
- Coventry
- Cumberland
- Devon
- Dorset
- Dudley
- Ealing
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Hampshire
- Havering
- Herefordshire
- Hillingdon
- Isle of Wight
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Lincolnshire
- London Borough of Richmond
- Luton
- Manchester
- Milton Keynes
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Newham
- Norfolk
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Lincolnshire
- North Northamptonshire
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- Oldham
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Redbridge
- Richmond
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Rutland
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sheffield
- Solihull
- Somerset
- South Tyneside
- Southampton
- Southwark
- Stockport
- Stockton
- Stoke on Trent
- Suffolk
- Tameside
- Torbay
- Tower Hamlets
- Trafford
- Walsall
- Warwickshire
- West Northamptonshire
- Westmorland
- Wigan
- Wolverhampton
- Worcestershire
Pilot assessments
We completed 5 pilot assessments to test our assessment framework, methods and processes. We have published an evaluation of these local authority pilot assessments.