Councils continued to offer high quality social care services for adults in the past year, the Care Quality Commission have said in a recent press release (25 November).
“Of the 152 councils responsible for adult social care services in England, 95% (145) were assessed as performing well or excellently  – the same proportion as the previous year (when there were 148 councils). However, the number performing excellently has increased by five to 37.”
“Seven authorities were assessed as “adequate”, and CQC said they needed to improve their performance in all outcome areas. For the seventh year running, no councils were rated “poor”.
“CQC chief executive Cynthia Bower said: “About 1.75 million people across England rely on the care arranged for them by their council. The large majority of councils provide good standards of care, whether they run the services themselves or commission them from the private or voluntary sectors. But a few need to improve considerably before they can say they are providing good services for local people”
http://www.cqc.org.uk/newsandevents/newsstories.cfm?FaArea1=customwidgets.content_view_1&cit_id=36889
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of all health and adult social care in England. The current system of performance assessment that has operated since 2002 is changing and the CQC is assisting in the design of a new system with the Department of Health, the Local Government Group and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)