Red tape kills care home

A holiday home that offers respite breaks for hundreds of disabled people is set to close after struggling to cope with the spiralling cost of care, reports the Eastern Daily Press.

The Norfolk-based charity which runs the home has been forced into the move because it can't find the £500,000 needed to meet the strict standards demanded by the government.

Hundreds of families from East Anglia depend on the centre to ease the strain of round-the-clock care.

One parent described her "total despair" if the home can no longer help her severely-disabled daughter.

All 23 staff, several of whom have worked there many years, have been told they face redundancy as the charity looks at a radical overhaul of its service to save money.

Maybe if the government weren't wasting billions of pounds by handing it to an organisation like the EU with a terrible record for waste and fraud, and that hasn't had its accounts approved by auditors for twelve years running, it could afford to make grants to hard-pressed charities like this one - to help them fund work necessary to meet the "strict standards" the government is setting.