Council Charging Lottery Creates 'Community Care Refugees' Campaigners Warn People with Learning Disabilities Face Baffling System.

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A POSTCODE lottery of care charges for people with learning disabilities means some individuals and families are paying so much they have to cut back on support or social activities, while others in neighbouring council areas pay nothing at all, according to campaigners.

Learning Disability Alliance Scotland represents a range of charities including Enable Scotland, Quarriers, Leonard Cheshire Scotland and Crossreach. It worked with the Scottish Parliament's cross-party group on learning disability to ask local authorities what they would charge for three different case studies.

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Council Charging Lottery Creates 'Community Care Refugees' Campaigners Warn People with Learning Disabilities Face Baffling System.

The cases highlighted by the MSPs and LDAS are all based on real individuals. They found that "Joe", a 25-year-old young man relying on housing benefit and needing nine hours of home care support a week would be charged nothing in 16 council areas, while someone in the same situation in Aberdeen would be charged GBP45.8...

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