Severely ill and disabled people in Oxfordshire say they are being asked to foot the bill for drastic council funding cutsIan Felton,70, does not relish the plan of staying in bed to save money. But he has been forced to consider that option after his local council informed him that he would be paying more than five times as much towards the cost of his care than he had been.final month, and Oxfordshire county council warned of the “devastating impact of proposed additional funding cuts to services,including day centres for older people and children and homelessness support, in order to find further savings of £69m (11.4% of its total gross budget). This is on top of the £292m of budget cuts already agreed between 2010 and 2020. Adult social care will be a great loser. Some £15.6m will be axed, or leading to support for carers,health and wellbeing centres and bus subsidies all facing the chop.
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Source: theguardian.com