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Disabled people's entitlement to social care support is being eroded by the day and Leonard Cheshire Disability calls for local authorities to fund basic levels of social care services.
All too often disabled people go without and cope as best they can because they do not have the money to buy the social care they need to get on with their lives. The charity's Disability Review 2008 shows a 15 per cent decrease from last year in the number of disabled people using social care services. One fifth (20 per cent) of more than 1000 respondents to the survey about disabled people's lives are now having to fund these services themselves. The Disability Review findings are yet another indictment - like the CSCI (Commission for Social Care Inspection) 2008 State of Social Care report and Leonard Cheshire Disability's Your Money or Your Life earlier this year - that the extreme rationing of social care support is failing disabled people. Eric Prescott, newly appointed Chief Executive at Leonard Cheshire Disability, said: "The social care system is in urgent need of reform and this cannot wait until the Green Paper on adult social care comes out next year. "We hope that the CSCI review of eligibility criteria for social care that is being presented at the National Adult and Children Services on October 23 will rescue those disabled people who have been abandoned in the social care market" www.lcdisability.org
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