How Will Those In Supported Living Cope With Benefit Cuts? (Social Care in Crisis the Need for Reform) from the Learning Disability Coalition, a campaigning group of which United Response is a founding member. This is perhaps the most sustained attention which the mainstream media have paid to the specific challenges people with learning disabilities are facing in a time of spending cuts.The Times letter,Polo Outlet, which is signed by the leaders of all 15 leading LDC members including United Response chief executive Su Sayer, points out the stark reality of the crisis in social care and warns that this will worsen without urgent reform. The letter goes on to say:Cuts are having a significant impact, and there is real hardship ahead for people with a learning disability.More than three quarters of local authorities are facing difficulties in funding support for people with a learning disability and have made cuts or savings; nine out of ten councils expect to have to make more cuts in the future.Despite the Governments welcome commitment in the coalition agreement to addressing such desperately needed reforms,Polo Ralph Lauren Outlet, the highly anticipated White Paper continues to be delayed. For people with a learning disability, reform cannot come soon enough.The 6 O Clock News item was also a serious and detailed examination of the funding crisis,Polo Outlet Online, and interviewed people with learning disabilities who had seen their support cut, as well as relatives and support workers who were deeply concerned about the future. While it is unfortunate that it takes a rather bleak report to get the media to pay attention to the lives and concerns of people with learning disabilities, it is still very welcome. People with learning disabilities need the public to understand just why support is crucial to them and why funding needs to be protected and indeed increased, as our Life Support report earlier this year showed. Media attention like this can only help in that long term goal.The government estimates the proposals will save around 20%, or £2bn, from the current £12.6bn scheme. However, hundreds of thousands of disabled people will potentially lose benefits of up to £70 a week for care and mobility expenses.