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Learning disability charity awarded £10k grant

Grow Limited will use the funding to install a watering system in its glasshouses.

A close-up of the faces of a young man and a woman with shoulder-length hair smiling at the camera.

'Forcing our disabled son to move will break us'

Elena and Andrew Round are battling against a council's bid to move Billy out of residential care.

Hereford & Worcester

A family of five brothers and sisters are standing together and smiling for a photograph. There are two women and a man on the front row and two men on the back row. One of the men on the front row is wearing a Christmas jumper with a deer's antlers just visible.

Disability charity faces £1.4m Budget costs hike

The Wilf Ward Family Trust warns new care packages may not be possible after cost increases.

North Yorkshire

Barry has glasses and short grey hair. He is sitting next to his fiancée Betty who is grinning. There is a red and white sparkly Christmas stocking hanging on the window next to them

Services will shut, Mencap warns on National Insurance rise

The charity is one of a number of care organisations warning they will have to axe vital services.

Declan Morrison holding the hand of someone who is not in shot. He is wearing a royal blue T-shirt and is smiling animatedly at the person holding his hand to the right of shot. He has dark brown hair and dark eyes.

'Our son was naked and in crisis on CCTV'

A family whose autistic son died after being taken to a mental health unit raise concerns.

Holly Goodchild with short red hair, an eyebrow piercing and big blue eyes smiling into the camera.

Unhealthy culture at seizure death firm - coroner

Care plans "were not always followed by care staff", a coroner says, following a woman's death.

A group of men and women standing together and wearing an array of Christmas jumpers

‘We will not give up, we’ll put on a show’

The Side By Side group is staying positive, despite their Christmas performance being cancelled.

James, who has blond hair and is wearing a parka, looks at the camera. There is a tree in the background and he is set against a cloudy, orange sky.

Family fear for son as college funding dries up

A family are prepared to go to court so that their son continues getting funding for his education.

Max next to and hugging his mum Sam

Day centre closure plans ‘inexcusable’, user says

A mother says her son's world would "close in" if Hookstead centre in Crowborough was to close.