A report by Scope, Mencap, National Autistic Society, Sense, Leonard Cheshire Disability

Care and support is vital for people of all ages. But the debate on social care funding has been almost exclusively about how the system should respond to the demands of an ageing population.

Important as this debate is, one in three people who use social care services are disabled people of working age whose needs are not always the same as those of older people.

As decisions about social care begin to be taken, with the passage of the Care and Support Bill through Parliament, it is essential that we understand what is distinctive about the needs of working age disabled people.

For the first time, this report provides evidence about the size and level of impact of the social care crisis on working age disabled people.

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