A care charity which supports severely disabled care home residents says it's being forced to try and evict them because of the rising costs of care. The Leonard Cheshire charity says it can no longer afford to subsidise all the 3,000 people it currently supports in the UK.
It has blamed the rising costs which local authorities are not prepared to meet. A spokesman said council budgets are now at “breaking point” and that “funding being allocated to providers like us is sometimes simply not keeping pace with the real costs of care in many cases”.
The situation means the charity has sought to evict some vulnerable residents with complex disabilities, because council funders had refused to meet fee increases that reflected the rising costs of wages, energy and food. The Guardian reported that the charity has served 11 eviction notices on contracts that had been under negotiation without agreement since February.
