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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Helen Pidd

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

Nigel Farage grins in the foreground. People in the background hold Reform UK signs
Nigel Farage campaigning in Lancashire before the local elections in May. Reform took control of the county council, winning 53 of the 84 available seats. Photograph: Victoria Jones/REX/Shutterstock

Lancashire’s Reform-run council has been accused of “selling off the family silver” through its plans to save £4m a year by closing five council-run care homes and five day centres and moving residents into the private sector.

One of the care home residents, a 92-year-old woman, said she would leave only by “being forcibly removed or in a box”.

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