Head of Kisharon Langdon: funding pressures ‘worst I have known’ - The Jewish Chronicle

The head of a leading Jewish charity for people with learning disabilities has said that funding pressures were the worst they had been in his two decades of working in the field.

Kisharon Langdon’s chief executive Richard Franklin said that “persistent underfunding” in social care services, compounded by global events, meant it was becoming increasingly difficult for the charity to fill its annual funding gap of £4 million.

Speaking soon after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had announced his spring budget, Franklin told the JC: “This is the hardest I have known it in my 20 years in social care. The latest budget tax cuts further cement the chronic lack of social care funding, making Kisharon Langdon’s mission harder and yet still more vital.

“We offer incredible support for our learning disability and autism community, but we can’t do it alone.”

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