The future of learning disability is under serious threat, healthcare intelligence provider Laing and Buisson has claimed.
The organisation said that financial pressures on local authority budgets and an alarming shortage of housing stock will jeopardise the provision of support for adults with learning disabilities.
Commenting on the publication of the two reports, Laing and Buisson chief executive William Laing, said: “Unless these issues are better recognised and more holistically addressed, for instance through the provision of extra funding by the Commission on Funding of Care and Support, there is an increasing likelihood that many providers will go out of business. This would result in an even greater crisis and shortage in specialist service provision.”