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Spending on social care is going down, yet demand is rising. Much of the recent debate has focused on older people but a third of all social care users are working-age people with disabilities.

Carole Ross, mother to 18-year-old Nelly who is severely autistic, discusses her and her daughter's experience of social care provision and Liz Sayce, chief executive of Disability Rights UK, says that the "ethos of independent living is at risk".

(Image: Nelly and her family. Credit: Carole Ross)