Market oversight in adult social care: your views

Page last updated: 17 February 2026
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We asked you to comment on our plans for market oversight of adult social care.

What is market oversight?

Market oversight will be a new regulatory duty for CQC from 6 April 2015. This means that we will oversee and monitor the financial health of difficult-to-replace providers of adult social care services in England.

How we developed this draft guidance

We worked in close collaboration with a number of providers, members of the public, people who use services, commissioners, lenders, other regulators and a range of stakeholders through a series of workshops last year, to develop both the market oversight model, and our approach.

Your feedback

We asked for your feedback on the following draft documents:

Market oversight: Draft guidance for providers

Market oversight: Draft quick guide for providers

We have collated the comments we received along with our responses in the document below:

Our response to the call for feedback on our draft provider guidance on Market Oversight