Care Market Strategy 2025-2030 and Annual Market Position Statement

Suffolk Care Market Strategy 2025-2030

Our Care Market Strategy sets out our ambitions in Adult Social Care (ASC) for the care market, including our approach to market shaping, and how we will support the care market to meet the needs of Suffolk residents.

For this purpose, the care market includes all providers of care and support to the residents of Suffolk, including the Voluntary, Community, Faith, and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector, and micro-enterprises. This includes providers who are not required to be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and those who do not currently work with the Council.

The Care Market Strategy is closely aligned to our ASC strategic ambition people at the heart of care, and broadly describes how we will work with the care market to respond to challenges (including future demography and an increase in people with higher additional needs), to achieve good outcomes for people.

These outcomes include:

• A focus on promoting and / or maintaining independence and wellbeing
• Better support for unpaid carers
• More services for people with higher additional needs
• Diverse and high-quality services
• Increased use of Individual Budgets
• Different models of accommodation with support in the right locations
• Fully utilising technology at every opportunity
• A skilled workforce
• Services which are affordable and a care market that is sustainable.

Adult Social Care Annual Market Position Statement (MPS)

The MPS offers a more detailed oversight of the care market, and is updated annually to include:

• A description of key service areas
• Identification of known gaps and opportunities for providers
• Key metrics (aligned where appropriate to People at the heart of Care), including spend and activity to identify and track progress.

The 2025/26 Market Position Statement is published here.