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Adult social care performance
We’re committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred adult social care services for people living in our borough.
To help us monitor the quality of these services and make sure they meet the needs of our residents, we produce an annual report. This is called our Adult Social Care Local Account, and it helps to tell the story of adult social care in Barnsley.
Our Local Account
We work with our Think Local, Act Personal group to develop our Local Account report, running sessions to hear from people with lived experience of our services and local carers. This helps us better understand what’s working well and where we can continue improving.
The Adult Social Care Local Account looks at our performance over the past year, including key achievements and successes. This includes the national indicators we use to measure our performance, such as people’s quality of life and satisfaction with their care and support. It also sets out our plans for where we know we need to improve.
Publishing our Local Account makes us directly accountable to those who use our services, allowing you to determine for yourselves how well we’re doing.
Read our Adult Social Care Local Account 2023-24.
Quality inspections
The government also monitors the quality of local adult social care services through the Care Quality Commission (CQC). They're an independent body, established by the government to promote improvements in health and social care and identify bad practice.
The CQC carry out inspections of services to check whether hospitals, care homes, GPs, dentists and care services in your home meet national standards. They report their inspection findings annually in a report to Parliament.
You can find out more about inspection reports and how services have been rated by CQC on the Care Quality Commission website.