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• Disabled care home residents evicted in charity’s dispute with councils

  25-11-2022 19:00
  Exclusive: Leonard Cheshire says it can no longer afford to subsidise care services inadequately funded by councilsSeverely disabled care home residents are being evicted in a series of disputes between one of the UK’s best-known care charities and a number of local authorities that the charity has accused of refusing to meet the soaring costs of care.In the latest sign of the UK’s deepening social care crisis, Leonard Cheshire said it had taken the drastic step of evicting vulnerabl
  
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• Care for UK’s most vulnerable faces ‘collapse’ as providers count cost

  25-11-2022 19:00
  Increasing numbers of providers, such as Leonard Cheshire, are ‘handing back’ contracts not viable at current funding levelsFor several years now, as austerity sucked billions out of social care, the highly specialised UK social care system for adults with complex physical disability, learning disability and autism has been quietly held together by the benevolence of charities.Charities and not-for-profit firms have poured millions of pounds of reserves into propping up the supposedl
  
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