Council wrongly reduced disabled man’s personal budget by arbitrarily capping respite payments | Community Care

A council wrongly reduced a disabled man’s personal budget by arbitrarily capping respite payments at the equivalent cost of residential care, despite this being an unsuitable way of meeting his needs, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found.  As a result, his parents had to top up payments for carers so that the […]

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