Letter to the Editor re: McEwan et al (2019) Moving on from Quality Assurance: Exploring Systems — Outcomes in Disability Services

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Dear Editor, We are writing in our capacity as researchers at the University of Kent involved in the development of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) (Malley et al., 2012; Netten et al., 2012; Rand, Malley, Towers, Netten, & Forder, 2017b). The ASCOT measures social care-related quality of life (www. pssru.ac.uk/ascot). The ASCOT offers different approaches for data collection, including self-report, interview, mixed methods, proxy-report, and easy-read format (Caiels, Rand, Crowther,