The Government is introducing a new duty for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to assess how local authorities are meeting their adult social care duties. The CQC Single Assessment Framework provides us with an additional opportunity to develop more rigour in our governance arrangements and our practice. It will help us to focus on quality throughout everything we do, embedding a continuous performance improvement culture, while making us more accountable to the people we support. The report sets out the development of Wirral’s self-assessment of how it provides Adult Social Care services.