ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a quantitative model that seeks to measure general need levels in a Social Services Department authority area. It explores some of the demand side structural weaknesses of the market provision of social care. Needs based planning requires that the quantitative and qualitative need of the population are measured and accurate measurements made of prevalence and incidence. Actual demand expressed relates closely to costing, pricing and charging, as if purchasing power is not available to users, their demands cannot be translated into actual supply. The Samples of Anonymised Records represent a rigorous national sample with reduced sampling error when compared to the much smaller alternative national surveys. The chapter examines a quantitative model of social care demand in East Sussex. It aims to examine the mismatch between theoretical demand and actual expressed demand in the social care market.
