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An alliance of learning disability charities has welcomed a decision by Glasgow City Council to seek new bidders to run services previously operated by the collapsed company Choices Care.
Choices Care went into administration last month, and administrators quickly struck a deal for the Choices Supported Living Service which supports around 40 people with learning disabilities in Glasgow, to be bought by the Mears Group. However, following a recommendation from social work chief David Crawford, Glasgow's executive committee decided last week that it could not simply hand the contract over to Mears, which is a large domiciliary care provider operating largely south of the border. Instead, council chiefs accepted a recommendation to open up the current provision run by Choices Care to other bidders over the next few months.See the full content of this document
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