This strategy sets out our ambitions and intentions for the care market. We need to develop a range of quantitative and qualitative measures to assess its success, and these will include:

• A reduction in permanent admissions to residential care
• A reduction in the supply of care home beds
• An increase in the use of short-term Services
• An increase in the % of people supported to live in their own home/community
• An increase in care market recruitment and retention rates
• An increase in the % of care providers rated Good or Outstanding
• An increase in satisfaction with services for care users and for unpaid carers
• An increase in the number of people supported via care technology to live as independently as possible
• An increase in adults with learning disabilities accessing paid employment
• Continued high levels of satisfaction on quality of care, value for money and choice
• Readiness for the Social Care Reforms and the reforms land well across Essex