Monitoring and evaluation
The Policy Memorandum notes recommendations from the IRASC that the NCS should address gaps in national provision for social care and social work in relation to workforce planning, data and research, IT and (as appropriate) service planning, as well as concluding:
Improved data and digital infrastructure are critical to helping people live fulfilling, independent lives; enabling professionals to support those people; facilitate ethical and collaborative commissioning; underpin regulation and improvement programmes...