The number of households funded by the government’s Supporting People programme – set up to help fund housing services to vulnerable people – has fallen by more than 15 per cent in the past five years. Communities and Local Government said the number of people being supported was higher at the beginning of the programme because services that were initially transferred into it, such as care homes, were later judged to be ineligible. Cost-cutting is seen as a more likely cause of the overall cut.
