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The objective of this study is to find out changes on the composition among social care providers(state, voluntary and for-profit) and government reactions to it in the English community care which is operated by user choice scheme. This study shows that total number of home care services consistently increased with growing of for-profit sector. In the care home services, the number of bed provisions are similar since 1993. But state and voluntary provisions are decreased, for-profit sector provisions are consistently increased. As of 2008, three quarters of social care services are provided by for-profit sector. Although overall service level has been enhanced for National Minimum Standard, the service quality of for-profit sector is lower compared to the state or voluntary(nonprofit) sector. This causes the matter on managing quality of service. Korea enter into aging society which causes diverse demands for social care services and it is expected that in accordance with such change in demand, we will see small-scale profit organizations in continual expansion. Such phenomenon will further increase the need for quality control in the future, which will require quality management standards to be uniformly applied on a national basis, as in England, and establishment of a strong organization in full charge of those standards.