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

Keith Harris was told last month that he faced eviction but the threat was withdrawn after an 11th-hour deal. Photograph: supplied

Severely 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 vulnerable residents with complex disabilities because council funders had refused to meet fee increases that reflected the rising costs of wages, energy and food.