Local authority assessment reports

Page last updated: 4 October 2024

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). 

Local authority assessments in progress: October 2024

View the list of local authorities we have contacted to start assessment activity

  • Barnet
  • Bath and Northeast Somerset
  • Blackpool
  • Bristol
  • Camden
  • Cheshire East
  • Cheshire West
  • Darlington
  • Ealing
  • East Sussex
  • Enfield
  • Essex
  • Gateshead
  • Gloucestershire
  • Hammersmith and Fulham
  • Haringey
  • Hartlepool
  • Hillingdon
  • Islington
  • Kensington and Chelsea
  • Kent
  • Knowsley
  • Leicestershire
  • Liverpool
  • Medway
  • Middlesbrough
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne
  • North Somerset
  • Northumberland
  • North Tyneside
  • Oxfordshire
  • Reading
  • Redcar and Cleveland
  • Sefton
  • Shropshire
  • South Gloucestershire
  • St Helens
  • Surrey
  • Staffordshire
  • Stoke on Trent
  • Stockton
  • Sunderland
  • Telford and Wrekin
  • Warrington
  • Westminster
  • West Sussex
  • Wiltshire
  • Windsor and Maidenhead
  • Wirral

Local authority 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.