Local authority assessment reports

Page last updated: 10 January 2025

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: January 2025

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

  • Bath and Northeast Somerset
  • Blackburn and Darwen
  • Blackpool
  • Bradford
  • Brighton and Hove
  • Bristol
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Calderdale
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Camden
  • Cheshire East
  • Cheshire West
  • Croydon
  • Darlington
  • Ealing
  • East Sussex
  • Enfield
  • Essex
  • Gateshead
  • Gloucestershire
  • Halton
  • Hammersmith and Fulham
  • Haringey
  • Hartlepool
  • Hillingdon
  • Islington
  • Kensington and Chelsea
  • Kent
  • Kingston
  • Kirklees
  • Knowsley
  • Lancashire
  • Leeds
  • Leicester City
  • Leicestershire
  • Liverpool
  • Merton
  • Middlesbrough
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne
  • North Yorkshire
  • North Somerset
  • Northumberland
  • North Tyneside
  • Oxfordshire
  • Peterborough
  • Reading
  • Redcar and Cleveland
  • Rutland
  • Sefton
  • Shropshire
  • Slough
  • Southend
  • South Gloucestershire
  • St Helens
  • Sutton
  • Staffordshire
  • Stoke on Trent
  • Stockton
  • South Tyneside
  • Sunderland
  • Swindon
  • Thurrock
  • Wakefield
  • Wandsworth
  • Warrington
  • West Sussex
  • Wiltshire
  • Wirral
  • Wokingham

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.