The toolkit aims to help those planning and shaping services and treatments for adult people with social care needs and their carers make informed decisions about which services and treatments to provide and how much they cost.

​The toolkit is available here.

The ESSENCE toolkit has:​

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• A collection of case studies covering research findings for some of the main interventions identified with the help of the advisory group
• Information on relevant UK research studies on social care interventions
• Information on the type of evidence (published or forthcoming) across the array of social care interventions and population of interest.

Each case study summary looks at:

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• Context
• Key points
• Intervention
• Effectiveness
• Cost-effectiveness
• Nature of evidence
• Other information (qualitative experiences; implementation knowledge)
• Key contact(s)